Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16612, for John Hurlbut, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn. Continental.
Hurlbut, John or Hurlbert
N. 16612
Judith
CONTENTS

New-York 17. 073 R John Hurlbut (or Hurlbert) Onandaigua Co: New-York.
Private in Col: Wyllys's reg. Connecticut line, one year. December, 1775 to Decr. 1776.
whereby  the  payment  commenced of the due for the year of
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York , at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 13. of April , 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12. of Oct r 1820 and sent to Victory Bindseye , agent, Pompey, Onandaga Co New-York .
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1820 . $: 229. 80 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 March 48 " 28 mo s : 22 } 1821. } $: 277. 80 30.5
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. } and 1 st May, 1820. }

7794.
New York
Dinah Hurlbut widow of John Hurlbut or Huerbert Conn. who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 7th March 1832 of Chandaigua the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. McCall in the War line for 20 months,
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Oct. 1842 and due to _____ Hulius Chandaigua N. York
Total amount, $ 323 30
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by McVamphin, Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 2 Page 84.

17,459.
John Hurlbut, (or Hurlbert) Onandaigua Co. N.Y. Original Declaration 13 th April, 1818.
Col: Wyllyp's regimt. Connecticut line, December 1775 to December, 1776.
Service proved by the testimony of two credible witnesses.
Worth $: 87. \frac{50}{100}
Victory Bird's-eye, agt. Pompey, Onandaga Co. N. York. 5. October, 1820.

John Mulbert
copy
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The certificate of M c naman is in grant to befor d to the care of the Park Master Doyney-

State of New York
Onondaga County ss. On this first day of Sep- -tember in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty, personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in the town of Onondaga in & for the said County of Onondaga (the said Court being a Court of Record for the said County of Onondaga proceed- -ing according to the course of the Common Law with a jurisdiction unlimited in amount and keeping a record of their proceedings,) John Thurlbut aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 10 th of March, 1820. & the 1 st May 1820. - That he the said John Thurlbut Enlisted for the term of one year in the latter part of the Month of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five at Weatherfield in the State of Connecticut into a Company commanded by Captain Gabriel Scott of Farmington in said State in a Regiment commanded

com d by Col: Samuel Willys of the Con- -tinent line al the Continental Establishment. That he continued to serve in the said Corps untill the last of the Month of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy six, when he was discharged from the said Service on the North River (he thinks at Peekskill altho' of the name of the place where he was discharged he wants not be positive) in the State of New York.
The Deponent further saith that in the Spring of the year 1777. he again enlist- -ed into a Company commanded by Cap- -tain Mary Chapman in the Regiment still commanded by the said Samuel Willys for the term of Eight years months for which time he faithfully served his Country against the Common Enemy as he did also during the said years service That he was in the battle & retreat on Long Island and thro' New York up to Kings- -bridge - and that he has no other evidence here in his Power except the former Declaration made by this Deponent in order to obtain the benefit of the

said cut first above mentioned on the 13 th day of April 1820. - before the Hon d Jonathan Stanley - and the affidavits of Thomas Hart E. and Roger Clark which have been obtained since my said former applica- tion was rejected - And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred & Eigh- teen; and that I have not from that time, by gift sale or in any manner, disposed of my prop- erty, or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it or 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 services of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the eighteenth 10 th day of March one thousand eight hundred eighteen; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or secu- rities, 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.
And this Deponent further saith that his occupation is that of a farmer - that this Deponent has a break or hernia , which troubles him constantly - that he has a cancer on his which is very sore that there

afflictions & his advanced age have disabled him from doing much labor for eight years past - That this Deponent's family residing with him and dependent upon him are his Wife - That she is sixty three years old - That she is infirm & has fits and has been subject to fits many years - That the Deponent resides with his son's Wife poor and that his son's Wife is a cripple and unable to walk but with crutches and further this Deponent states that the original application formerly made by this Deponent for the benefit of the first of the above mentioned acts - & the corroborative affidavits of Thomas Hart Esq. & Roger Clark are herewith delivered to the said Court if Comrs now place to be transmitted to the War Department with the copy of this declaration, a further schedule and further with note -
John Warhurst
Sworn and subscribed in Ours Court this first day of September 1820.
J. O. Warhurst judge of Ours Comrs place -
Schedule of the property of John Warhurst above named this first day of September

1020 - to wit about five acres of Land worth $ 50. - 1. cow worth 12. 50. 4 hogs 3. would weigh about 75 lbs a prim & the other about 50 lbs alive } 5. - fine sheep worth 5. -
fans old chairs - 1 table apart of a set of old knives & spoons 1. Pot 1. kettle 1. frying pan - The Cloaths I have on an indifirent suit and one old great coat worth } 4. - Etc because of the wearing apparel
My son has no clothes about him - he has none that he has no
That he owes to several persons for (principally for Eastering him- self & wife to Dr. Upson, Dr. Mason & Dr. King) he believes about fifty Dollars altho' not having made settlements with his several creditors he cannot specify the amount due each.
That he has about two acres of corn growing on his said land which promises to be but an indifirent crop having been much injured by grasshoppers worth $ 10. -
six or seven hens & thirty or forty chickens worth } 86. 50 John Thurber and Elijah Barker 87. 50.

being severally duly sworn severally make oath and say that the above is the whole of the property of said John Thurber to their knowledge or belief and that the above is the whole full cash value of the same - and further they say that said Alijah Barker is the near neigh- -bor of said Thurber well acquainted with said property its value
John Thurber.
Alijah Barker.
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court Sept. 1. 1820.
J. O. Wattles Judge of Onondaga Common Pleas.
In Onondaga Common Pleas Sept. 1. 1820. I Truman Adams Clerk of Onondaga Common Pleas do certify that the fore- going oath and the Schedule thereto an- nexed are truly copied from the Records of 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 Eighty seven Dollars & fifty cents - and that the Debts due from the said John Thurber are as stated in said Schedule - and that the annexed

said John Thurbut are as stated in said Schedule - and that the annexed
application concomitant are the original affidavits spoken of in above oath of said John - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & here affixed the seal of the said Court. - This ninth day of September 1820 William Adams Clerk of said Court
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State of New York In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836
State of New York County of Onondaga
On this 14 th day of November 1836 personally appeared for George Pettit one of the Judges of the County Courts in & for the said County, Judith Hurlbert a resident of the Town of Salina in said County of Onondaga, aged Seventynine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4 th 1836: That she is the widow of John Hurlbert who was a private in the army of the revolution, but she cannot from recollection set forth the names and rank as of the field & company officers under whom he served, excepting those of Col Samuel Willis & Captain Ezekiel Scott, nor can she state the day, month or year when the said John Hurlbert entered and left the service as such soldier, but thinks & believes that he served two or three terms of from three to Nine months as will appear by reference to the proof upon which the was pensioned under the Laws of the United States of the 18 th of March 1818 and first of May 1820, the certificate of which is hereto annexed (which is all the documentary she has to support her claim) . She further declares that she was married to the said John Hurlbert on the 12 th day January (A.D. 1778) Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight, that her husband the aforesaid John Hurlbert, died on the seventh day of March 1832, & that she has remained a Widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. And that she has no children under the age of sixteen years.
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written before me, & I do certify that I am well acquainted with Judith Hurlbert who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, & know her to be reputed as a person of credibility, and further, that she cannot, from bodily infirmity and age, attend the Court as prescribed by the rules & regulations of the War Department, & that she made her signature to the same, by her mark because she could not write her name.
George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Court
her Judith X Hurlbert mark

State of New York Onondaga County
On the 14 th day of November 1836 before George Pettit one of the Judges of the County Courts in & for said County, came Marvin Button & Enoch Ely of Salina in said County, who being secondly duly sworn, left before the said Judge, according to Law, respectfully de pose & say, that they are well acquainted with Judith Hallett who has subscribed to the foregoing declaration, & are also well acquainted with John Hallett in his lifetime, her deceased husband, that he died about four & a half years ago and that the said Judith has not been since married, but still remains his widow, as these deponents believe, being both her near neighbors, & having no reason to suspect or believe to the contrary. Sworn to, and subscribed on the day & year first above written, by Marvin Button & Enoch Ely before me, & I certify that I am well acquainted with them both & know them to be reputed as persons of credibility.  George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts  Marvin Button Enoch Ely
State of New York County of Onondaga
I, Hanson Edwards Clerk of the said County, do certify that George Pettit before whom the preceding affidavits purport to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Common Pleas Courts in and for the said County, duly appointed and qualified, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the final of said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature.  Witness my hand and Seal of Office at Syracuse in said County, this 15 th day of November in the year 1836.  H. Edwards Clerk

John Durlburt and Judith Hornwer were married together on the 12 th day of January A.D. 1774, by the Rev. Joshua Belden
State of Conn t Hartford County
Wethersfield Register's Office } S. I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of an entry in the Record Book of Marriages in this office — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 8 th day of October A.D. 1836 Alfred Francis Register
State of Conn t Hartford County
Wethersfield, Oct r 10 th 1836 } — I the undersigned Selectmen of Wethersfield aforesaid, do hereby certify that Alfred Francis whose signature is set to the above Certificate was on the day of the date of said Certificate Register of said town of Wethersfield duly appointed and sworn — And further that we are acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe the signature "Alfred Francis" subscribed to said Certificate to be the hand-writing of said Register — In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands —
John Warner Jr. ( Selectmen Solomon Goodale ) of the town of Wethersfield

State of Connecticut County of Hartford Wethersfield November 3 d A. D. 1836 personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace of said County of Hartford "Alfred Francis" to me personally known as the Register of said town of Wethersfield, and as acting as such, and duly made Oath to the truth of the within certificate, of the record of the marriage of John Hunt and Judith Hoorner on the twelfth day of January A. D. 1778, as shown by a record of the same in the Record Book of marriages in the Register's office in and for the town of Wethersfield aforesaid, & said Alfred Francis has also been known to me as Register as aforesaid for six months past
Amos Pillsbury Justice of the Peace
I, ROYAL R. HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern,
THAT Amos Pillsbury — Esquire, is, and for more than six months last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and author- ity, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to cer- tify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said
Amos Pillsbury — in Court and Country
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 3 rd day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty six —
And I further certify that his signature above is the genuine signature of said Pillsbury — Attest May H. Hinman Secretary

John McKeever Subscribers
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September of each year, by the Branch Bank, U.S. in the city of New-York. No pension is payable until the arrival of one or the other of the above dates, after the issue of a Certificate.
Registered, by Clerk, in book B, volume page 116
G. H. Henshaw Clerk
Judith McKeever Application under the Law of July 11th 1836 George Pettit Agent, Subscribers Onondaga County N.Y. V 713.
Capt Scott's Company Col. Milly's Btry 11th Regt N.Y. Vols. mustered in at Albany March 11th 1844 mustered out at Albany March 11th 1844 same from Colo
H. C. Taylor H. R. Dec 10,
13. 42 1/2 10 1/2 1. 7. - 1. 9 2. 10. 21 - 34 272 - 1. 73 26 8 277. 59
36 200.

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, and 1 st May, 1820, — John Hurlbut, (or Hulbert) of Onondaga County, New-York, — late a private — # in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New-York — # Agency, at the rate of Eight — dollars per month, to commence on the thirteenth day of April , — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twelfth — day of October , one thousand eight hundred and twenty .
E Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Documents of John Thurlbut a Revolutionary soldier - for Pension
Information to be communicated of his Pension when granted & certificate thereof to be sent to Henry Bradford Post Master Powney Vermont 20 sh for the soldier W. D. Dyer

Jonathan Stanley, Esq; Judge Onondago County, New-York
John Hurlbut, Connecticut line, Revolutionary claim.
found on the roll of Col: Wyllys's regiment, for 8 months service, only .
Inadmissible, unless satisfactory evidence, on oath, proving 9 months service in continuance , be transmitted under the seal of the Court.
Victory Bindsrye, Esq; Pompey, Onondago Co.

State of New York Onondaga County, ss: John Sherburt, of the town of Falmouth in said County being duly sworn make the oath that he served as a soldier in the armies of the United States during the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy, one year commencing in the latter part of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy five - That he entered in Weathersfield in the State of Connecticut into a Company commanded by Captain Ezekiel Scott of Farmington in said State - in a Regiment com- manded by Samuel Willis of the Connecticut Line - That he enlisted on that occasion for one year - immediately on entering went with the said Regiment to Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts - where he remained in service with the said Regiment until the British forces evacuated Boston - after which the said Regiment went onto Long Island - after retreating from there passed thro' New York - and up the North River - where this Deponent was discharged on the last of December having faithfully served for one year the whole time of his said enlistment - he further saith that near the close of his said term of service he received a warrant as Third corporal in the said Company - The Deponent having acted in the said Company in that capacity from that time for some time previous - The Deponent further saith that his discharge from the said service at the expiration of the said service

he has not now in possession near 6000 he knows or believes that the term is in existence but believes that it was lost many years ago & before he removed from Connecticut. The Deponent further saith that his said Patent as Corporal as aforesaid in the said Company was in existence & in his possession until the twenty seventh day of February last when the same was destroyed by the burning of the Log house in which the Deponent resided at Salisbury aforesaid with which the Deponent lost all his household furniture & personal prop- erty then in his house except the clothing of himself & family which they then had on - The Deponent further saith that from his reduced circum- stances in life he needs the assistance of his country for his support - That he owns five acres of new land in the said town of Salisbury worth about fifteen Dollars an acre - with a log cabin thereon - The Deponent further saith that his health is poor, that he has a Breath which troubles him very much & has for many years - & greatly disables him from labour. He has also a cancer on his nose which is troublesome which afflictions together with his advanced age being now sixty seven years old - renders him very dependent for his support - Further he saith not That after the term of service above mentioned he entered again into the army of the Uni- ted States into a Company soon commanded by Col. H. Thom. Chapman for the term of eight months in the Regiment still commanded by the said Willis & served this full term of eight months

for the term of eight months in the Regiment still can be commanded by the said Melvin I served this full term of eight months during which time he served at West Point West Point & up the North River - that his Dis- charge from the service was in writing but which was a Discharge in writing but which has been lost many years - I further the De- part faith that he knows of no consolidation testimony within his reach short of going to Court I sworn to before me not for the same he saith not - this 13 th day of April 1848 } Jonathan Stanley a Judge of Onondaga Common Pleas John Hurlbut
State of New York Onondaga County, Martin Lewis & Cornelius  and Calvin Simmons The tellers of tales in said County being duly sworn severally make oath & say & each for himself saith that he lives in the neighborhood with the above named John Hurlbut & uses to him - & that it is a fact well known to them that the log house of the said John Hurlbut was burnt accident- ally at the time above stated by the said John in the absence of the family & that all his household property was burnt therein as he hath stated in his affidavit above men- tioned - The said Dependants both and all arriving on the spot while the said house was on fire - And the said Dependants each for him- self further saith that he saw the said

Warrant for Corporal which the said John Thur- berth hath above mentioned, in his deposition Shortly before his said House was burnt & the said Deponents have no doubt but themselves but that from the appearance of the same that they know of the character of the said John Thurberth that it was a gen- uine Document such as it purports to be such as he hath described it nor have they any manner of doubt whatever that the same was consumed at the time his house was burnt & further they say not.
Sworn to before me by all both  of the Deponents this 13 th day of April 1848. Jonathan Stanley a Judge of Onondaga Common Pleas
Martin Lewis (Signature) (Calvin Jennings)
State of New York, Onondaga County ss. I Jonathan Stanley one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Onondaga, hereby certify that John Thurberth who hath made the foregoing affidavit is person- ally known to me as are also the above named Martin Lewis & and Calvin Jennings  Calvin  and  Calvin  and that all four the of them are credible witnesses - and I am satisfied from the foregoing Deposi- -tions & from an acquaintance of several years standing with the said John Thurberth that he the said John Thurberth served in the revolutionary war against the Common Enemy for the time & in the manner above stated - & I further certify that the above Depositions of the said John

over again in the manner above stated. & I further certify that the above Depositions of the said John
Thurber & of Martin Luther Cornelius and Calvin D. Dugren Hartell, contain all the testimony exhibited before me by the said Applicant for the purpose of being taken & transmitted to the Secretary of War - all which I hereby certify & transmit to the Secretary for the Department of War. Given under my hand at Falmouth in the said County this thirteenth day of April A.D. 1848. -
Jonathan Stanley a Judge of Common Pleas
State of New York
Subndage, County of: I Jasper Hopper Clerk of the said County hereby certify that Jonathan Stanley before whom the within Depositions appear to have been taken and who hath signed the above certifi- cate was at the time of the taking thereof a duly qualified Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and for the County of Subndage duly com- missioned & sworn & that the above & within are his signatures - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this twentieth day of April - A.D. 1848. -
Jasper Hopper Clerk

Declaration
In order obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th of July, 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows."
State of New York
Onondaga County
On this 22 d day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred & fortythree, personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and general Sessions of the peace in & for said County, then sitting as such Court at the Courthouse in the Town of Salina in said County, the same being a Court of record, Hiram Kirtland a resident of the Town of Salina in said County, aged fortyseven years last January, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his Oath, make the following declaration in Order to obtain, as Son & heir of Judith Kirtland, late of said Town of Salina, the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, entitled "An Act granting pensions to certain Widows, from the time said Act took effect, to the time of said Judith Kirtland's death, as herein after stated. That he is the Son, & for aught he knows, the only surviving child, of John & Judith Kirtland deceased, that he is fortyseven years old last January, according to a record of the family, found in a large Bible left by his said Parents, which the declarant knows to have been their family Bible, which record, the declarant was informed by Judith Kirtland, his said Mother, & believes, was written partly by John Middlebrook since deceased, from her recollection & dictation, after the house of his said Parents was burned, when the original family record was destroyed, & partly by others, which said last made record is hereto annexed, — that the said John Kirtland was a pensioner of the United States under the Acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and 1 st May 1820, & received annually from the

thirteenth day of April 1818 to the day of his death the sum of Ninetysix Dollars, or rather to the 4 th of March previous to his death but the declarant has made due search & enquiry for his Original pension certificate, without finding it. That the said John Knellert died on the seventeenth day of March 1832, according to the annexed record, & as the declarant well re- collects - that the said John Knellert was married to the said Judith, whose maiden name was Horner, on the 12 th day of January 1778 as appears from the same record which also shows that she died on the 23 rd of November 1839, & agrees with the knowledge & recollection of the declarant as to the day of her death. That the said Ju- dith Knellert was an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of July 4 th 1836, but failed, because her marriage was proved to have occurred second days after said John Knellert's discharge from the service, as appears from an extract of a Letter, dated Dec r 11 th 1837, from the Commissioner of Pensions to George Pettit Esqr, her agent, in the following words, to wit. "On the sub- ject of the claim of Mrs Judith Knellert, whose claim is referred to in your memorandum of the 7 th instant, I have the honor to state, that it is satisfactorily proved by the claimant, that she was married to her husband John Knellert on the 12 th January 1778. In his application under the Act of 1818 he states that he served twelve months in 1776 and eight months in 1777 and 1778. From this last term he was discharged as appears by the rolls of the regiment on the 5 th January 1778." That the following children were born to the said John Knellert & Judith Knellert, as appears from the said record, Lucy who married Samuel Fox & died afterwards, Polly who who married Gane Welch & died - William and John both of whom went to sea in the same vessel, and have not been heard from since, which was thirty years ago.

Allen who married and removed to western Pennsylvania in Armstrong County, and the last information from him, was a letter from him to the declarant dated the 5 th of October 1834, stating, among other matters, that he contemplated removing farther west. - Since my last interview with him has been known by any of his family friends in this region, since the declarant last saw him, seven or eight years ago, at Utica, Oneida County, N. Y. being then and there on his way to New York in order to go to sea, as he informed this declarant. - Hiram Hurlbut, this declarant, who was the last & youngest of the children of said John & Judith Hurl- but their Parents. That the said John and Judith lived with this declarant & he supported them seven or eight years previous to his receiving his said pension, and he maintained his said Mother from the time said pen- sion ceased at his death, to the time of her death as both are herein stated. - That said Judith was very sick feeble & bedridden for a year & a half previous to her death, which, with the constant expectation of her death, on the part of this declarant, was the reason why she did not assert her claim for a pension under the Act of July 7 th 1838 - That the said Judith Hurlbut was never married after the death of her said husband, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and Ninetyfour, V. at the time above stated as the de- clarant was always informed by his said Parents & believes to be true. N. B. The syllable "the" & the word "and" at were written in the margin at A - the words "half pay &" at B. & the words "partly by others" at C, were interlined before signing.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written before the Court.
Amasa H former judge of Onondaga County courts } Hiram Hurlbut

I Charles T. Hicks Clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas & General Sessions of the peace, in & for said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Hiram Knutson for a pension as the only surviving Child & heir of Judith Knutson deceased.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of the Court this 22 d day of May in the year 1843.
Chas. T. Hicks Clerk.

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
Lucy Hurlbut was born 23 January 1779
Polly Hurlbut was born 22 January 1782
William Hurlbut was born 6 January 1785
John Hurlbut was born 28 February 1788
Allen Hurlbut was born 30 September 1790
Chancey Hurlbut was born 24 July 1793
Hiram Hurlbut was born 29 January 1796

FAMILY RECORD.
DEATHS.
DEATHS.
Polly Died - 17 th March 1830
John Hunt
Died the 7 March 1832
Lucy died Nov 3 rd 1834
Judith Hunt died Nov 29 1839

10,068
Declaration of Miram Newbert, as heir to Judith Newbert, & Proof De. for a Pension under the Act of July 1838.
George Pettit Agent Faberius Onondaga County N.Y.
10,068
Judith Hurlbut
NY
act 7. July 58
m 78 d 32 -
1064 75. p. 8 mo 1064 76 - 12

State of New York
Onondaga County ss On the 15 th day May 1843 before me Philo-
B Castle a Justice of the peace, in & for said County, comes Pilatiah Hayden of the town of Pompey in said County Summit, fine, At aged 75 years, who being duly sworn according to Law, deposes & says, that he was well acquainted with John Kirtland late of the Town of Galias, in said County, deceased, & with his late Wife Judith Kirtland, when they resided in the town of Wethersfield, in the state of Connecticut, & for many years of their subsequent lifetime while they resided in said Town of Galias, as set forth in an affidavit of this deponent, made in the year 1837 in behalf of the said Judith, to aid in establishing her claim for a pension under the Act of Congress of July 1836 - that said John was a pensioner under the Act of Congress of 1818 - that deponent is also acquainted with Miram Kirtland of said Galias, the Son of said John & Judith, & the only living child of theirs known to this deponent, who is an applicant for any pension which said Judith was entitled to under B any pension Law of Congress, as her Son & heir at Law & that deponent has been acquainted with said Miram for a period of Eight or ten years last past, & knows him to be reputed to be the Son of the said John & Judith Kirtland, & to have been recognized by them as their lawful Son. - & further deponent says not.
Subscribed & sworn to by Pilatiah Hayden the above mentioned deponent, the day & year above written before me - & I certify that I am acquainted with him & know him to be a credible Witness & entitled to full belief. The word "Seventyfive" and the word "under" at B. inserted, & "deponent" written in the margin before signing.
Pilatiah Hayden
Philo. B. Castle Justice of the Peace

State of New York } SS Onondaga County }
On this 13 th day of May 1843 before me Philo - B. Castle a Justice of the peace in & for said County, comes William Lewis of the Town of Fabius in said County aged forty nine years, who, being duly sworn according to Law, deposes & says that he was well acquainted with John Nuttall late of said Town of Fabius, deceased, for more than twenty years previous to his death in 1832, & during the same period the deponent was also well acquainted with Judith Nuttall his Wife, who died on the 23 d day of November 1839, that the said John & Judith lived directly across the road from this deponent from about the year 1820 till his death, that said John was a pensioner under the Laws of Congress of 1818 - that deponent is also well acquainted with Hiram Nuttall a Son of said John & Judith, & has known him as a townsman of said town the same period of his acquaint- ance with them, who is an applicant as the only surviving child & heir to the said John & Judith, for any pension which the said Judith was entitled to, under the act of Congress of July 1838, & that the said Hiram was always recog- nized & owned by the said John & Judith as their lawful Son, & was reputed by the community at large as such Son, that the said Judith lived with, & was supported by, her said Son Hiram, from the time of his Father's death to that of his said Mother as above mentioned, excepting some six months that she lived with a daughter since dead, during which period said Hiram lived near by this deponent - & that previous to the commencement of said John's pension, both he & said Judith lived with their said Son Hiram, & further deponent says not.
Subscribed & sworn to by William Lewis the above named deponent, the day & year above mentioned, before me - & I certify that I am acquainted with him & know him to be a credible Witness & entitled to full belief. The word "Father" at A & the word "She" were intoned before signing
William Lewis
Philo B. Castle. Justice of the Peace

State of New York Onondaga County
Seventh Judicial Circuit In the matter of a Pension claimed to have been due to Judith Hurlbut late of the Town of Fabius in said County, deceased, under the Act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838, by Hiram Hurlbut representing himself to be the only surviving child of the said Judith Hurlbut: it is hereby certified, that, at a Court of Chancery (the same being a Court of Record) held at Onondaga in said County, on the 31. day of July, 1843, by the Honorable Daniel Moreley Circuit Judge of the seventh Circuit of the State of New York, & Vice Chancellor therein, now sitting, that it was proved by the adduc- tion of testimony by said Hiram Hurlbut, & which is satisfactory to the said Court, that the said Judith Hurlbut died at Fabius aforesaid, on the 23 d day of November 1839, then being the Widow of John Hurlbut deceased, & that the said John Hurlbut died a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of 1818- that the said Hiram Hurlbut is the Son & only child of the said Judith & John Hurlbut surviving them within the period of about twelve years last past, and that Allen Hurlbut and Chauncy Hurlbut, two other Sons of the said John & Judith left their said parents & friends, the former about twelve, & the latter about seventeen years ago, & went to parts unknown, & nothing has been heard or learned of either of them since their departure, ex- cepting one Letter from said Allen soon after he left as aforesaid. Witness Reuben B. Walworth Chancellor of the State of New York at Auburn the Second day of August 1843.
Approved Daniel Moreley B. Chancellor
J. Goodwin Clerk

In reply to your request of _____, received for a statement of the military history of John Hurlbut a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
W. File 16,612
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Dec. 75 1 year Pvt + 3rd Cpl Ezekiel Scott Samuel Mygale Verm.   Apr. 77 8 mos. Henry Chapman " " "        
Battles engaged in, Concord
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Concord, N.H.  But at Northfield, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 13, 1818.  Albany.
Residence at date of application, Fabius Oneida Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 67 years  Died Mch. 7, 1832.
Remarks: Sol. m. Northfield, Conn. Jan. 12, 1778 Judith Harnes; in  1836 she was 79 yrs of age + a res. of Fabius, N.Y. where she died Nov. 23, 1839.  Children: Lucy b. Jan. 23, 1779 d. Jan. 3, 1834. Polly b. June 22, 1782 d. Mch. 17, 1830. William b. Jan. 1, 1785.  John b. Feb. 25, 1788. Mch. 1. Sept. 30, 1790. Chauncy b. July 24, 1792. Miriam b. Jan. 27, 1796.
Very respectfully

1910 Apl. 16. Hist. to Mrs. Cora S. Rhodalberger 1917 Nov. 14. Hist. to Mary Shepard Stitt. P.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16612
Judith Hornbeck Widow of John Hornbeck Brn Rev War
Act July 7 th 1838
Index: Vol. a , Page 358
[Arrangement of 1870.]

✓
10.048
Isaiah Bullitt
A.D.
let to G. Pettit July 19. 43
Act 7 July, 1838

N. York Judith S. Harkness
Alphabet Encyclopedia See letter to Hon. Wm. Taylor
17 Dec. 1835 George Pettit - Aug 3 d 1837 do same Nov. 18, 1837 Hon. Wm. Taylor 11 Dec. 1837 George Pettit, June 9, 1838, Hon. W. Taylor do March 30, - do. to same 13 June 1838 to Hon. V. Birdseye, Sept. 21, '42 to G. Pettit April 29 th 1843

Hm. W. Taylor NR

Report the case of Judith Hurlbut to Hon. W. Taylor JR

Haw. W. Birdseye
Sep. 21. '42

258 New York Sept 21 1842
Sir
The claim of Judith Hare -but was disallowed under the act of 4 July '36 because it did not appear -ed that he was in service after his marriage - His service was 12mo in 76 & 8mo in 77 - and the marriage took place in 78 -
By making a declaration before a Court of record under the act of 7 July 38 she may be allow- -ed a 5 years pension for the above service of 20 months - I have the honor
Hon V. P. Dirdsey Pomfret NY.

George Pettit
Tahiti
NY
Oct 9. 1843.
Hulbert -
Brooklyn
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
1525 New Hampshire Ave NW
Office
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Flavus Onondaga County N. Y.
Sept. 30 th 1843.
J. L. Edwards, Esq. Comr. of Pensions
Sir. In the Pension case of Judith Huntbert deceased, on the application of Hiram Huntbert, her son & heir, transmitted, on the 7 th of August, the further evidence required in your note of the 19 th of July, & about the middle of the same month, the papers of Margaret Bookhout, Widow of James Bookhout, deceased, were also mailed at this Postoffice for the Department, but no answer has been received, in either case.
From this silence, especially in the former case, which was regarded as completely made out by that evidence, & from some appearances here among the creditors of Mr. Huntbert, inducing apprehensions that he might have been persuaded by them, to change his agency, or direct the department to send the certificate to him for the dishonorable purpose of securing their debts the more easily from the results of my labors, I take the liberty to enquire, not only as to the action & decision upon those cases, at the department, but also whether any such communication has been received there, touching the application of Mr. Huntbert. I trust that the labors I have sedulously bestowed on this case during the last seven years, without any compensation in advance, or expectation of reward in case of final failure, & the advances of money, will excuse this enquiry, & give me some claim for the information desired.
Very Respectfully Your Obedt Servt.
George P. Pettit

J. Hunt
Sept 21. 1842
Free
for Bridgeton N.Y. M.C.
James L. Edwards County Pension
Pompey N.Y. Sept 12
Washington City Dist. Col.

Dec 15th 1842
Dear Sir,
An application was made for a pension for five years under the Law of 1836. - or 1830, for the widow of a Revolutionary soldier. I am requested informed by her son who feels interested in the case to ascertain the reason of the pension's not being granted. whether the application was for a pension under the Law of '36 - & the proof did not show a marriage before the separation of his service - whether upon the new papers she can be allowed a pension under the act of 1830 - or whether further new papers must be made for the benefit of the last act.
Very respectfully
Yours Wm Lloyd
James L Edwards Esq.

Aug. 11. 1843.
Vol. death of Judith Hullick.
Free
L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Fulmin, Onondaga County N. Y. Aug. 7 th 1845.
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir.
In the case of Hiram Hunt - left the only surviving Child of Judith Hunt, de- ceased, I enclose herein a certificate by "a Court of records, of the day of her death & the name of the only Child that is known to have survived her" as required in your note of July 19 th .
As no answer is received to the papers of Abigail Cross and Catharine Shell, which I for- warded about the same time with those in the above case, I avail myself of this opportunity to enquire if the latter have been received at the de- partment?
I am very respectfully Your Obed t Serv t G. Pettit Agent

10.048. Judith Hurlbut New York Ad July 7 th 38
Admitted
20 mo private
$66.66 per an
G. Pettit Esq o Tobias Onondaga Co N. York.

Tadoussac, Dorchester County N. B. July 15 1837
Sir - Herewith I forward additional testimony in support of the claim of Judith Newell, for a pension under the Act of Congress of July 4 th 1836.
In your favor of the 20 th Dec r 1836 you state that "it appears from the papers of the claimant's husband, who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818, that his last term of service terminated in 1777: the marriage of the claimant took place in 1778, hence her claim cannot be allowed." This statement was occasioned great surprise among all those who were familiar with the actual or reputed revolutionary character of the Claimant's husband. A critical examination of the testimony now adduced, will show, that they were warranted in asserting that the recess of this statement was generally known and understood among them, to have been the fact, as some of them have therein testified. It is believed and expected, that this testimony will be satisfactory to the department, & bring it to the same conclusion, although the papers of John Newell, the deceased pensioner, by explicit terms, or by inference & construction may point to a different one.
It will be seen by the last affidavit of Hiram Newell that his father's ill health & infirmities, on the very day when he made his declaration, & for some time before , were such as might have induced a broken & disturbed

recollection, and even rendered him indifferent to the subject matter he was then engaged in, & this would account for any looseness in the terms and expressions employed in defining and describing his services. And not only may this deduction be fairly and rationally be drawn from that piece of testimony, but it affords perchance proof of reasons then existing in the mind of his father, for not adducing other and further evidence of his services, although he then knew it was in his power to do so: (to wit) that "he had got evidence enough, & did not want any more". Should a just & rational construction of the evidence herewith adduced, remove the objection arising out of "the papers of the claimant's husband", it can only be done, by establishing the fact, in lieu of the objection, that the husband actually served as a Soldier in the revolutionary Army, after his marriage to the claimant in the year 1778.
I am aware that these depositions do not contain the specifications required in an original application by the Soldier himself, and less effort in this respect, has been made, while procuring this testimony, in the full belief, that the construction of the department, upon the Act of July 4 th , would only require to be established, the simple fact of the husband's service, after the marriage : without calling in question any other matter, such as time, place, period of enlistment & service &c. &c.
To this fact , the testimony of George, Walrat and Andreas is positive and unequivocal ,

and if the facts and circumstances detailed by Hayden & H. Hurlbert are not held to be visionary & fabulous, a case is made out, from the whole premises, which inspires and justifies a confident expectation of speedy success in this application; and as such , it is respectfully submitted. — I avail myself of this communication to call your attention to the application of Sarah Baker. Her papers, presenting a full & perfect case, under the Act of July 4 th 1836, were mailed at Syracuse about the first of June past, and not having received notice of their arrival at Washington, some solicitude is felt, on that account, as well as for a speedy & favor- able decision on the application. If the papers are not received, a notice of that fact, will be a special favor. And a notice of your of- ficial decision on both these applications, will be grateful to the applicants, & obliging to me.
Very respectfully, I am. your Obed t &c
George Pettit
The Hon. Com te of Pensions

P. S. Since writing the within, your favor of the 11 th instant has come to hand, informing that "the proof of the date of the marriage of James Baker to Sarah Baker is not as satisfactory as it should be." And "some town, church or family record" is mentioned as the " best evidence ." It was not even surmised that any evidence could be deemed better than the unimpeached testimony, of soundminded intelligent witnesses, delivered in open Court, who were present at the marriage, & recollect its performance, & who swore positively to those facts, and that the marriage was performed before the husband's services expired , although they did not give the precise date of its solemnization, as was the case of the witnesses & their testimony when Sarah Baker made her declaration, to my certain knowledge then sitting as a member of the Court. I cannot but apprehend that her proofs have been but slightly examined, else further proof on that point would not be required. Therefore I deem it respectful to wait a further communication from you before the affidavit is subjected to the expense & delay of searching over New England for second proofs .
Yours very S. Edwards
I am very respectfully &c. &c. S. Pettit July 18-1937
Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Corroborative testimony obtained since the first application
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Thomas Hart 2 d of Berlin in Hartford County in Connecticut of Lawful Age being duly sworn Depose and say that I enlisted into the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary war on the first Day of January 1776 under Capt. Daniel Scott of Farmington in Colonel Samuel Wyllis Regt of the Connecticut Line and immediately joined the Regt at Roxbury where I found John Hurlbert of Witherfield Had enlisted and joined the Regt and company and faith- fully served as private in the company against the Common Enemy at Roxbury and the post adjacent untill the Enemy Left Boston which was on the 17 th of March 1776 Soon after the Regt Marched to New London and from thence Sailed to New London York where the Regt Remained through the Summer and which time said Hurlbert faithfully served his country as a Soldier untill the Enemy Left New York and I was and after a further Discharge that said Hurlbert was Remained with the Army untill I on Account of Sickness Left the Regt and went to the Hospital which was about the Middle of October 1776 I further Testify that the Above mentioned John Hurlbert is the same John Hurlbert mentioned in the Aforesaid petitions and that he served in the company of Regt faithfully more than nine months in and further the Deponent saith N ot Berlin December 29 th 1819. Thomas Hart 2 d
Hartford County ss. Berlin December 29 th 1819 Personally appeared Thomas Hart 2 d and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts contained in the foregoing Deposition — Sworn before me Benj m Hlyn Justice Peace
This may Certify that the aforesaid Deponent Thomas Hart 2 d lives in the vicinity with myself and is a man of truth and veracity — Benj m Hlyn Justice Peace Berlin December 29 th 1819 B.A. S.C.

Roger Clark of Wethersfield in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut of lawful age testifies that in the month of December 1775 he was enlisted by one William Tryon a sergeant in the Continental Army and marched from said Wethersfield to Roxbury under said sergeant Tryon and that one John Hurlbut marched in company with them as a private enlisted the same month and then belonging to the same town with the de- ponent, and that the said Hurlbut was on their arrival at Roxbury with the deponent turned into the Compa- ny of one Capt. Lydell and the Regiment of Col. Sime- on Wyllys of the Connecticut Line - that in the Spring of the year 1776 they marched from Boston to New York and the said Hurlbut with the deponent was there when New York was evacuated - and was in the month of November following a member of the army and were at Peekskill together when this deponent was taken sick and a furlough granted to him and he left the army during the month of November and returned to Wethersfield and he well recollects that there  when he left the ar- my in the month of November he left said Hurl- but a member of the Capt. Lydell company and I have never known but one John Hurlbut belonging to Wethersfield upon said from said town in the revolu- tionary war - and the deponent and the said Hurlbut were both members of the army from the month of December 1775 when they en- listed to the month of Nov r following after the deponent saw the said
Roger Clark

State of Connecticut Hartford County Methuenfield 20 th Dec r 1819 - Personally appeared Roger Clark of this town and subscribed thereto his deposition and made solemn oath to the facts contained therein before John Williams Justice of peace
This is to certify that Roger Clark who subscribed has sworn to the within deposition lies in my neighbour- hood & is a man of good reputation for truth
John Williams Justice of peace
I Thomas Chester clerk of the county court of the county of Hartford in the State of Connecticut certify that on the in 29 th & 30 th days of December 1819 John Williams & Benjamin Allyn Esqrs were Justices of the Peace in & for said county of Hartford & I believe that the two signatures of John Williams above & two signatures of Benj m Allyn on a paper marked B.D. J.B. are their signatures of said Justices Williams & Allyn. Signed & sealed with the seal of said court at Hartford January 1 st 1820 Thomas Chester clerk

Isabella Stewart to her daughter John
Hm. W. Taylor M.R.

State of New York
Onondaga County
On this 1 st day of March 1838, before me Philo B. Castle, one of the Justices of the peace in & for said County, comes Enoch Ely of Fabius in said County, who being duly sworn by & before the said Justice, doth, on his oath, depose & say that he was well acquainted for a term of five years with John Newkent, late of the said town of Fabius, deceased, & at the time of his said decease, was a prisoner of the United States under the Act of Congress of 1818 and the Prisoner Laws amending the same - that said Newkent was a man of truth & veracity & in all respects of good moral character, that deponent often heard said deceased speak of his services in the revolutionary War as a Soldier of the United States, & well recalls hearing him say that he served during the last years of the revolutionary War & until the close of it, & was present serving as a Soldier at said when the Army was disbanded at New York.
I further depose and say that I know to & subscribe by the above deponent this 1 st day of March 1838 before me, & I do further certify that he is a man of good character and credibility, & that his Statement is entitled to full credit & belief
Enoch Ely
Philo B. Castle Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Onondaga County } ss
In this 1 st day of March 1838 before me Philo B Castle an of the Justices of the peace in & for said County, came William Frink who being duly sworn lay & before the said Justice according to Law, doth, on his Oath, depose & say that he has read the within affidavit of Enoch Ely & that deponent concurs in his recollection of the same facts therein stated, & that he was acquainted with the said John Nuttall for a longer period of time (to wit) ten years
Wm Frink
Sworn to and subscribed by the above Deponent this first day of March 1838 before me and I do further certify that he is a man of good character and cred- ibility and that his statement is entitled to full credit and belief
Philo B Castle Justice of the Peace

State of New York } On the 28 th day of February 1838 Before me Philo B. Castle Onondaga County } a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Onondaga Came Zadok Seymour a resident of the town of Pompey in said County of Onondaga and State of New York aged eighty one years the thirtieth day of April next who being duly sworn by and before me the said Justice of the Peace deposes and says that he was a Soldier of the Rev- olution in the United States that his Residence was in Watertown Connecticut when he first enlisted for three years into the fourth Connecticut Regiment in Captain Joseph Mansfield's Company said Company being under the command of Jonathan Muzzey as Colonel in the year 1777 this deponent further saith that he became acquainted with John Hurlbut in the Spring of 1778 the said John Hurlbut enlisted into the same Company and Regiment that this deponent did and this deponent further saith that the said John Hurlbut served two years as a Soldier when this deponent's term of service expired and he this deponent left the said John Hurlbut in the said Joseph Mansfield's Company and this deponent further saith that he was the said John Hurlbut and that he was discharged from the service the 7 th January 1780 at a place called Baneshill Ridge in New Jersey and further saith that he left the said John Hurlbut at that time in the service of the Revolutionary War the above named Company and Regiment and further this deponent saith not
Zadok Seymour
Sworn and Subscribed this 28 th day of February 1838 before me Philo B. Castle Justice of the Peace
I certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Zadok Seymour for the space of thirty years and over last past and that he is a man of unquesti- oned truth and veracity and that he retains his Mental faculties perfectly well at this time
P. B. Castle
State of New York } Onondaga County } P. I Levi Wells Deputy Clerk of the said County do certify that Philo B. Castle before whom the preceding affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquaint- ed with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavits to be his proper hand- writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of Office this fifth day of March 1838.
Levi Wells Dep. Clk.
One certificate of the County Clerk will do for the dates of both affi- davits of Messrs Seymour & Bly, & he will fasten all three papers together, with a tape or ribbon & secure the ends of it under his seal of office - enjoiner of Mr Edwards or his deputies here

Galena P. O. Dec 21 st 1837
To the Com ee of Pensions
N. Y. Dec 21 st 1837
Sir Not to be unnecessarily importunate nor to reiterate former suggestions, I take the liberty to call your attention once more to the case of Mrs Judith Hurlbert, with a view to present one or two which I do not recollect of presenting on any former occasion. After the intimation contained in an extract from your favor of the 18 th Nov. last, I should feel diffident in saying any thing that was not entirely new , were it not for information derived from the Hon W. Taylor, under date of the 9 th Inst. saying in allusion to the case of Mrs Hurlbert, "Mr Edwards has agreed to review that case again". The extract above-mentioned is as follows. "Without entering into an answer to your suggestions about the case of Mrs Judith Hurlbert, it may be remarked that it is indispensable that a term of service which terminated after the date of the marriage , should be made out & established conformably with the regulations of 27 th June 1832 " Permit me here to say, that I did believe, that reasonable proof of the simple fact that the soldier was seen & known to perform military service  Bonafide in the war of the revolution, after his marriage to the applicant , would be sufficient to bring her within the provisions of the 3 d Section of the Act of Congress of July 15 th 1836, without exacting from her so strict a compliance with the the regulations alluded to, as would have been required of the soldier himself, and throwing upon her the impracticable burden, (in nine cases out of ten ), of proving the precise time & term of enlistment & service in each particular period - the names of his Officers - his several stations - marches & Battles - time & place of discharge & a burden made impracticable by the very event upon which the Act places her claim - the death of her husband - for the want of whose knowledge and information she is left without any clue to the history of his services as required by the said regulations. Nor has a respectful consideration of your discussions of this case, connected with a candid, though not critical examination of the Letter & Spirit of the Act, convinced me of

of error in this belief. — To seek for a full & complete construction to the Act of July 4 th 1836, in the regulations established for carrying into effect the Act of June 7 th 1832, four years before the former had existence, would seem to be at variance with its spirit, & would go far to defeat the justice & benevolence of its main object. This object is not to be gathered from the words in the 3 d Section of the Act of July 4 th 1836, "any person who served in the war of the revolution in the manner specified in the act passed the seventh day of June eight-teen hundred and thirty-two " but from the subsequent part of the section. In applying the last mentioned act to cases where in the deceased husband of the Widow had not in his lifetime availed himself of the provisions of the Act of 1832, there is good reason for going back under this phraseology , to that Act, & to the regulations established under it; & probably it was with an eye to such cases, that the Legislature adopted this phraseology. That reason arises out of the first section of the Act of 1832 where the period of service is limited to two years, for a full pension , and six months is the least period of service, for which any pension can be allowed. To determine therefore, whether a claimant under that Act, is entitled to any pension at all , & if so, to what amount , it is necessary that the several periods of service be specifically defined in the process, according to the good sense of the regulations. A widow, whose husband had never been a pensioner, applying under color of the act of 1836, is in fact, an applicant, and appears to fulfil the requirements, under both acts —hence the necessity & propriety, in this case, of holding her to the regulations of 27 th June 1832. But it seems to me it is otherwise in all those cases where the deceased husband died a pensioner.
I have said the chief object of the Act of July 4 th 1836, is to be sought in that part of the 3 d Section, which follows the recitation of the title of the Act of 1832. The words are "have died, leaving a widow whose marriage took place before the expiration of the last period of his service , such widows shall be entitled to receive &c." Now if the single fact be proved , that the deceased Soldier, had been, Bona fide , a Soldier in "the War of the revolution" after his marriage to the applicant, what more can be required, by a fair construction of these words?

By what construction of this language, can the onerous task be imposed upon her, to prove the day, month, or year, in which the term of service in which he is proved to have been engaged after the marriage, was begun or ended, or the period of its duration? or, to borrow your language, how do these words, copied from the statute, make it indispensable for her to show, "that a term of service which terminated after the date of the marriage" is actually "made out and established conformably with the regulations of 27 June 1832."
The merit of the widow's claim is predicated, by the spirit & design of the Law, upon her self denial for the good of her country - by consenting to dispense with her husband's company - by assuming add, to the duties of the Wife & Mother, the masculine labors & responsibilities of the husband and Father - by anticipating gratuitously widowhood as a volunteer , with all its toil and deprivation, that her husband might be spared, to fight the battles of their country. but it does not clench its grasp upon the meet it holds out to the bride of revolutionary days , now a trembling starving widow of fourteen years , to struggle with her spouse  memories of days or weeks her husband served his country, after she snatched him from the marriage altar. Marriage - & service after the marriage, are all the Law requires. and the word " expiration " is used in the 3 d section, for no other purpose, express or constructive, but to show the legally chronological relation between the events, terms required to be shown in evidence.
Proof of the marriage, and actual service after the marriage longer or shorter, I must be permitted to believe, constitute a full compliance with the requirements of the 3 d Section.
In this case, I take it for granted that the marriage is proved as required by the regulations on that point, and it is believed that a review of the affidavits forwarded by me under date of the 15 th July last, will be satisfactory as to the fact, that John Hurlbut the deceased soldier & husband of Judith Hurlbut, served in the war of the revolution, after their marriage , although they do not define the commencement, duration, and termination of any term of that service. The evidence of this service will be found to be sustained, with all the strength which circumstances, tradition, early recollection of children and neighbors & the more remote recollection of the Soldiers contemporaries, can in any case afford.

But should I be disappointed in these expectations, I beg the liberty to present one or two other considerations.
If much stress is laid on the influence , that because Mr. North's original papers show no service after the marriage, therefore it is fair to conclude there was no such service, I would then enquire if his declarations to the contrary, could be received, if well authenticated, to set aside such conclusion.
As long ago as 1818 he was in firm, being severely afflicted with a cancer which finally carried him off - for this reason, as well as for the reason that the act of that year, required proof of no more service than nine months, to entitle a claimant under it to his pension, he made no effort to get proof of more service.
Poor in means, & feeble in health he went all the way to Connecticut, for the evidence necessary under that Act. After he returned, he was heard to say & repeat, that he could have procured witnesses of other terms of service, but as he did not need them he did not take the trouble to hunt after them - These declarations can be produced by a number of my most respectable neighbours - Will their affidavits be received as sufficient? Otherwise but one expedient remains to be resorted to, and although this affords but a feeble ray of hope, it is partly with reference to it, that I have indulged the freedom of the foregoing description. This is, to go to Connecticut on a perambulatory search after witnesses at a venture, & without any knowledge that a single comrade of Mr. North, survived the lapse of time since he was there. Should we even succeed in finding one or two of his surviving associates in the land of the living, there is but little hope they could swear to more than the fact of his service in a given year, or antecedent or subsequent to some certain event , labelling as they must be, under a burden of years, and a prostration of faculties; so that the attempt would be useless, if we are to be held to a strict & full compliance with the requisitions of the 27 June 1832. May we expect an intimation from you on this point? I cannot but hope the evidence before you will be deemed sufficient to save the need of this resort, which as itself would be a virtual abandonment of the claim. Very respectfully, I am G. Pettit

State of New York Broome County } Samuel Thimbleby } On this 12th day of March 1838 before me a Justice of the peace in and for said County, comes Stephen Seymour a resident of the Town of Union in said County aged seventy nine years next July who, being duly sworn by and before said Justice, accord- ing to law, doth, on his oath, depose & say, that he enlisted for the term of three years, as a Soldier in the revolu- tionary Army, in January the year 1777, in the town of Water- town in the State of Connecticut where he then resided, & was attached to Captain Joseph Mansfield's company & Col Meigs's Regiment - that in the spring of 1778 the deponent became acquainted with John Kneeland of Wethersfield, Connecticut, who then enlisted into the same company, & Regiment for the term of three years & served in the same with this deponent, for the term of two years, when this deponent's time was out & when the deponent left the army at that time, in the year 1780 he left the said John Kneeland serving as a Soldier in the said Company - & that deponent & said John Kneeland sur- vived together during the years 1778 and 1779 and till the winter of 1780 and after the War was over deponent saw said Knel- eland in Wethersfield in Connecticut, that deponent was dischar- ged in January 1780 at Bergen in New Jersey & then & there left said Kneeland in the service as aforesaid - that said company was stationed at White Plains when said Knel- eland enlisted as aforesaid & joined said company, and deponent well recollects that he went home to see his family on furlough two or three times in the two years they served together as afo- resaid - that Zadock Seymour of Pompey, Onondaga County brother of this deponent, belonged to the same company & his sons David erron first Sergeant Isaac Parker and David Alcock Seymour & subscribed the day & year Stephen Seymour above written before me - Samuel Thimbleby Justice of the peace

I Samuel Kimball do hereby certify that I am well ac- -quainted with Stephen Seymour the within deponent & know him to be a man of sound mind and memory, & of good reputation for truth & veracity, & his statement is entitled to full credit & belief
Dated this 12 th day of March 1838
Samuel Kimball Justice of peace
State of New York Broon County ss
D. B. Marvin Clerk of said county do certify, that Samuel Kimball Esq before whom the foregoing Affidavite was taken was on the date thereof a Justice of the peace in & for this county, also I am well acquainted with his hand writing and believe the signature Sam d Kimball is genuine. Witness my hand and seal of office this 12 th day of March 1838.
D. B. Marvin Clerk

Dec 29. Mynk Case Dec 6 1836.
J. J. D. D. D.
Commission of Pensions Washington D.C.

State of New York, on the 22 d day of February 1858 before Broome County, Samuel Thimball a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, versus Stephen Seymour a resident of the town of Minerva in the said county of Broome and State of New York, aged seventy nine in July, who being duly sworn by and before the said Justice deposes and says that he was a soldier in the United States that his residence was in Water- town Connecticut when he first enlisted for three years in fourth Connecticut regiment in Capt Joseph Mansfield company in the year of 1861 this deponent further saith that he came acquainted with John Hurlbert at in the spring of 1861 the said John Hurlbert enlisted into the same company and regi- ment that this deponent remained in the said regiment was commanded by Col John Muzzey this deponent further saith that the said John Hurl- bert served two years as a soldier when this deponent's time of service expired and he left the said John Hurlbert in the said Joseph Mansfield company and this deponent further saith that he saw the said John Hurlbert in Connecticut after the war and ever since more this deponent saith not sworn and subscribed this 22 d day of February 1858 before me
Samuel Thimball Justice of the Peace
Stephen Seymour
I certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Stephen Seymour for six or seven years last past and that I consider him a man of truth and veracity Samuel Thimball

State of New York } Broom County } do certify, that Samuel Rumball Esq. before whom the within Affidavite was taken was, on the date thereof, a Justice of the peace in & for this county, also I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and believe the signature is genuine, Witness my hand & Seal of office this 22 nd day of February 1838
B. Marvin Clerk
Hon. W. Taylor A.D.

473.W
Judith Hurlbut
widow of John -
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N.Y.
act 4 July '36 -
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witnesses 16. fri 12 mo rolls 77. 8 -

State of New York Chautauqua County
ss. Josiah Wolcott of Otsego in the county of Chautauqua, being duly sworn, doth depose and say that he was personally acquainted in the year 1778 with John Hurlbert and Judith his wife, who at that time did reside in the town of Wethersfield in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, and this deponent saith that he lived in the same house with the said John Hurlbert & Judith his wife at the time of their marriage and this deponent further saith that the said John Hurlbert did serve in the revolutionary war most of the time from 1778 & some time before until the end of the war, that the said John Hurlbert was several times at home on furloughs, and this deponent further saith that he was known to Judith Hurlbert working out in the field in haying & harvesting in the absence of her said husband, and this deponent further saith that he worked in the same field with the said Judith Hurlbert and further this deponent says that the said Judith Hurlbert had a child born while her husband was in the service, and further this deponent saith not
Subscribed and sworn May 24th 1837. Before me Asa Fitch Commissioner of Deeds
Josiah Wolcott

at the time of the final discharge
This may certify that I have been acquainted with Josiah Walcott the within named deponent for twenty five years, and believe him to be a person of truth and veracity - (Dated May 24th 1837) Asa Pritchard Commissioner of Deeds
STATE OF NEW-YORK, CHENANGO COUNTY } ss. Clerk's Office,
I, PEREZ RANDALL, Clerk of the county of Chenango, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said county, do hereby certify, that Asa Pritchard Esquire, was on the 24th day of May 1837, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity: And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily believe the signature to the annexed Affidavit to be his proper hand writing.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county, and subscribed my name this 17th day of June 1837
Perez Randall Clerk

State of New York
Cronkage County
On this 26 th day of June 1837 before me John White a Justice of the peace in and for said County comes Joseph Young a resident of the Town of Canajoharie, County of Madison & State aforesaid, aged Seventy-eight years next July, who being duly sworn by & before the said Justice, according to Law, doth, on his oath, depose & say, that he was a Soldier in the revolutionary War more than five years, & now is a pensioner of the United States that his residence was in Pomfret Connecticut, when he first enlisted, which was for a period of one year, that during the remainder of his said service his home was in Amherst in the State of Massachusetts, that in the year 1780 while he the deponent was serving as a substitute for Sergeant Reuben Dickinson, in Captain Hascall's Company in the 11 th Massa- chusetts Regiment, commanded by Col. Shepherd, in Westpoint, where he served from about the 25 th of November of that year till the Eleventh day of February 1781, he became acquaint- ed with John Hurlbert, a Soldier who was then & there serving in the same Regiment, in a Company command- ed by Captain Pope, that said John Hurlbert served in Pope's Company at Westpoint during all said period of time, and was enlisted for three years, or during the War, that deponent was one of twentysix Soldiers taken out of Capt. Hascall's Company to make up a detachment of two thousand troops that were ordered to the South, & left Westpoint for that service in February 1781, under Major Deleer, & was attached for a few days, first, after arriving near Saughtown, to Capt. Barker's Company & then to Captain Tisdell's company of Gren- adiers, & left said John Hurlbert at Westpoint serving as a Soldier as aforesaid & that he was a tall spry Man - that afterwards, when the War had close- -sed, deponent was acquainted with Benjamin Hurlbert, a brother of said John, in Pennsylvania on the Delaware River, at a place called Hurlbert's Bend, near the corner of New Jersey, who also was Sometime a Soldier in the Revolution, as deponent understood from him.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written. } Joseph Young before me, & I further certify that I have been well } John White J.P. acquainted with him this deponent for a period of about 60 years, & that he is reputed to be a man of truth & veracity & his statement is entitled to belief John White Justice

State of New York County of Onondage
J. S. Hanson Edwards, Clerk of the said County, do certify that John White Esquire, before whom the preceding Affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, duly Elected and qualified; and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed to the part of the within Affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature. — Witness my hand and Seal of Office, this 18 th day of July in the year 1837
J. S. Edwards Clerk

State of New York } ss. Onondaga County
On the nineteenth day of May 1837, before me George Pettit a Judge of County Courts, in & for said County comes Josiah Andrews, a resident of the town of Fabius in said County, aged Eighty four years, who being duly sworn, by & before the said Judge, deposes & says: That he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, & now is a pensioner of the United States. Under the Act of Congress of 1832: That he resided during said War, in the town of Farmington, since called Southington in the County of Hartford, & State of Connecticut. That while deponent was a Soldier at Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1776 he became acquainted with John Hurlbutt or Hurlbut late of the said town of Fabius deceased. He was then and there serving as a Soldier in Col. Wyllys regiment - Capt. Ezekiel Scott's Company for the term of one year.
That after said Hurlbut served out his first enlistment for one year, he enlisted again, into the same Company, for the term of three years or during the War. That deponent is confident that said Second enlistment was made for one or the other of those periods, but which, he cannot now distinctly recollect. That in the year 1777 deponent saw said Hurlbut serving in said Company as a Soldier at New York. That deponent did not see said Hurlbut afterwards, till after the war closed, but was often informed by two of his nearest neighbours; by the names of Ruel Wannis and Samuel Wannis who served as Soldiers in the Revolutionary Army to the end of the War. That they were also well acquainted with the said John Hurlbut. & served with him, at the signal of same times and places till all three were regularly discharged at the close of the War in the City of New York. That deponent had farther information that said Hurlbut served as a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army to the end of the War, which knowledge and information leaves not the shadow of a doubt of said Hurlbut's

Service as aforesaid, on the mind of this deponent.
That afterwards about twenty five years ago deponent renewed his acquaintance with said Hurlburt, in the said town of Fabius, when both lived together as neighbours, till said Hurlburt died, in March 1832 a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of 1818. — to
That during said last acquaintance deponent and said Hurlburt had frequent conversations about the events of the Revolutionary War, which happened, not only when they were soldiers together as aforesaid, but during the subsequent periods of the War down to its Close. All which confirmed the deponent of the fact that said Hurlburt continued in the Service of the United States as aforesaid to the Close of the War. That during their said last acquaintance deponent became acquainted with Sarah Hurlburt, the wife of said John Hurlburt, now residing in said town of Fabius, as his widow and an applicant for the Continuation to her, of her said deceased husband's pension, under the third Section of the Act of Congress of July 4 th 1836, & further the deponent says not.
Sworn to & Subscribed to Josiah Andrews Before the said Judge the day & year first above written
I do hereby certify, that I have been intimately acquainted with the above deponent for a period of about forty years, that he is a man of unquestionable veracity, that his memory is strong & clear — that he is a man of more than ordinary intelligence for one of his age & that his statements are entitled to full credit & belief.
George Pettet Judge of Onondaga County Carnegie

State of New York } Onondaga County } ss.
On the nineteenth day of May 1837 before me George Pettit a Judge of County Courts in and for Said County, Comes Niram Hartwell, a resident of the town of Fabius, in Said County, aged forty years, who being duly sworn, by & before Said Judge deposes & says: — That he is the son of John Hartwell, late a pensioner of the United States, under one of the earliest pension Acts of Congress, deceased; who died in the town of Fabius in Said County in March 1832: That before & pending the pas- sage of those Laws, granting pensions to Soldiers of the Rev- olutionary Army, deponent lived in the house & family of the Said John Hartwell, who being a very poor man frequently spoke in hearing of the deponent of relief ex- pected from his Country, — provided the law should pass as was expected; That in view of such re- lief Said deceased, directed this deponent to look over his old papers, & find his Soldiers discharges, for services in the Revolutionary Army. That deponent did so, & found the discharges, which his Said Father had re- ceived for his services at the close of certain periods for which he had enlisted & during which he had served in the Army of the Revolution. That soon after & before it was known to the deceased or the deponent that the law granting pensions had been passed by Congress; the house of the Said deceased was destroyed by fire & all his effects including the Said discharges were consumed. That deponent well recollects Said discharges were ancient, smoky, printed papers & appeared to be regular discharges of Said John Hartwell from military service in the Revolutionary Army: That the names of the Officers who signed them, deponent believes, were M'Gilly & Huntington, & that one or more of them was dated at New York in 1782 or 1783: That de- ponent is the more particular & confident from the following

facts, of which he has no doubt at all, to wit: That on find- ing said discharges as aforesaid & reading the same, to said John Kirtland. Especially the one that was dated at New York, he burst into tears & exclaimed "that is the discharge I received when the Army was disbanded." And further that deponent between the ages of ten & twenty years belonged to a Company as was a fashion of boys, who formed for their discharge together for purposes of training and military discipline. That these boy companies were kept up in three or four different neighbourhoods, which occasionally met together for battalion or regimental - parade. That deponent was chosen & served as a sort of Field Officer which made it his duty to give dis- charges to boys when they removed from one neighbour- hood to another. In performing this duty deponent made use of the aforesaid discharges as matters of form. That deponent has often heard his Father speak of having enlisted & served for two or three different periods in the Revolutionary War. That he was at West Point at the time of Arnold's trea- son & was in the service at the end of the War & received his last discharge from the Army at New York. That Judith Kirtland now an applicant under the Act of Congress of July 4 th 1836 is the mother of this deponent & the widow of the said John Kirtland. & has resided & still does in the family of this deponent, since the decease of her husband, the said John Kirtland. Excepting a short period when she resided with deponent's sister. & further the depo- nent says not.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned before me & I do -
Further certify that I am acquainted with the above depo- nent & know him to be a credible witness
George Pitts Judge of Onondaga County Courts

State of New York } Onondaga Co }
On the twentieth day of May 1837 before me George Pittet a Judge of County Courts, in and for said County courts, Pettiah Hayden a resident of the town of Pomeroy in said County, aged sixty nine years, last space, who being duly sworn by & before the said Judge, deposes & says:
That he resided in Newington parish, town of Wethersfield, County of Hartford, State of Connecticut from the De- claration of Independence 1776, during the whole period of the Re- volution & afterwards, & was then & there well acquainted with John Hartburt late of Fabius in said County of Onondaga deceased; who died about five years ago in said in said town of Fabius a pensioner of the United States, under one of the earliest Acts of Congress, granting pensions to Re- volutionary Soldiers. That he was again acquainted with the said John Hartburt, for and during the period of about thirteen years previous to his decease as aforesaid. That depo- nent well recollects that a number of the inhabitants of said town of Wethersfield served as Soldiers in the Continental troops of the Revolutionary Army, who generally enlisted for during the War & that some of the names were as follows:— Charles Churchill, Stephen Kellogg, Simon Wells, James Francis, Asa Andrews, Waitstill Dickinson, Ezekiel Winchell, Levi Latimer, John Kirkham, Sam l Kirkham & the said John Hartburt. That during the said period of the Revolutionary War, it was common for these Soldiers, to return home for furlough, & then go back to the Army.
That the deponent well remembers the circumstances of their coming home & returning to the Army as aforesaid, repeatedly; and that the said John Hartburt was a- mong the number who in this way, were known to be in the service of the United States, as before stated. That deponent has a distinct recollection of the time & circumstances, when the Soldiers before named were discharged from the Army & returned home for the last time & that the said John Hartburt was among the number so discharged as was said & generally understood.

That deponent cannot fix the time of the final discharge & return from the Army of the said Soldiers, as aforesaid excepting by his own age, which was sixteen years, when those events happened. That the deponent is also well acquainted with Judith Hartburt the widow of said John Hartburt, now residing in said town of Tazewell. That he knew her during this said residence in the town of Wethersfield & for the last eighteen or twenty years has been acquainted with her in the adjoining towns of Tazewell & Pownal, where they respectively reside.
That deponent's acquaintance with said John Hartburt and Judith Hartburt as man and wife commenced soon after they were married, but he cannot fix the time of their marriage.
That the deponent testifies with confidence that the service of the said John Hartburt in the Army — his coming home on furlough — and returning back to the Army in manner as aforesaid, happened & continued for & during a number of years after he was acquainted with said John Hartburt & Judith Hartburt as man & wife, & even down to the time of his final discharge as aforesaid, from the Revolutionary Army.
That deponent further says that he remembers hearing the names of Huntington — Wyllis — & Scott mentioned by those Soldiers as officers under whom they served. And further the deponent says not.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year just above mentioned before me, and I certify that I have been well acquainted for a number of years [i.e. 15 years] & that he is a credible witness & his statement is entitled to full belief.
Petahiah Hayden
George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Court

State of New York Onondaga County
On the 6th day of July 1837 before me George Pittit a Judge of County Courts, in and for said County, came Hiram Hunt a resident of the Town of Fulton in said County, aged forty years, who being duly sworn, by & before the said Judge, according to Law, deposes & says that in addition to his affidavit of the 19th of May last, hereunto annexed, that he recollects well that he was pre- sent at a conversation between John Hunt then in married, and William Clarke then a resident of said Town, and a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of 1818, deceased; who died in September 1834, in which conversation they both spoke freely & familiarly of the occurrences at Westpoint at the time of Arnold's treason, & were both present and acquainted with each other at that time & place - that deponent has often heard his father, the said John Hunt say that he had a brother by the name of Benjamin Hunt, & that the last he knew of his said Brother, he resided somewhere in New Jersey, but deponent does not recollect of ever seeing his said Uncle Benjamin Hunt. - That shortly before the time when said John Hunt went before his attorney Victory Birdseye Esq. to have his papers prepared for his pension, he had been dangerously sick, & was then so weak that he fainted away once on the road, and again in the office while detailing his revolutionary services, & that his mental powers were considerably impaired, as deponent well remembers, being present with him to take care of him - & that deponent has no doubt, it was owing to these in- firmities, that any inference can be drawn from his statement then & there made, implying that his last service ended before the year 1778, & deponent is confident of this opinion & belief, by a clear recollection of hearing his Father tell of his service

...in the trial of Tabias v. Straker , where the respondent, under in the reiterationary strong long after his marriage to his surviving Widow, - & that deponent heard said John Kussart say, & repeat, after he made & sworn to his de- -laration, and after he returned from Connecticut where he procured the proof he did obtain, that he could have pro- cured proof of more service if he had needed it, & that said William Blake would have sworn to further service if he had then known where he resided, but he had then got evidence enough, & did not want any more. - & further deponent says not -
Hiram Kussart
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year first above written before me, & I certify that I am acquainted with the above deponent, & that he is a credible witness & his statement is entitled to belief -
George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County County -
State of New York County of Onondaga
ss: I Hanson Edwards Clerk of the said County, do certify that George Pettit Esquire, before whom the preceding Affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, duly appointed and qualified; and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the jurats of the said Affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature.

Witness my hand and Seal of Office, at Syracuse, this 10 th day of July in the year 1837
A. Edwards Clerk
John White Justice

Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Have you a record of John Hulburt, as a pensioner of the Revolution? He was the son of Charles Hulburt, and was born in Northfield, Ct., Apr. 10, 1757. He was married to Judith Homan June 12, 1778, and his children were: Lucy, Mary, William John, Allen, Chauncy, Francis. They moved to Salina, N. Y. and he died there Mar. 2, 1832, his wife died Nov. 19, 1839.
If you have no pension record, please inform me

where I can find his military record. The name was spelled different ways, Hulbert, Hurlbut, etc., etc.
Thanking you in advance, I am,
Respectfully,
(Mrs.) Cora S. Rhodaberg,
Clarendon,
Warren Co., Penna.,
Apr. 2, 1910.
1910

Washington City July 24 - 1860.
Sir. I have the honor to inform herewith a letter from a Mr. A. P. Tupper of East Middlesex to whom inquiries therein I would solicit the favor of an answer from the Pensions department - with the return of Tupper's letter - With my great respect &c -
Salomon Root Rev. G. C. White } Comm. of Pensions }

Rev War
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions (Washington D.C.)
Please send me the Military history of John Burbut a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Record found in I.S.C. (Widow's file 18412, Rev. War. Dates of Enlistments Enlistments Dec 1775 - 1 yr. Private & Third corporal. Capt. Ezekiel Scott. Colonel Samuel Wylllys State Conn.
Spring 1777, 8 months. Capt. Henry Champion, Colonel Saul Wylllys, State Conn.
Name of widow - Judith Horner Burbut Very Respectfully (Fabius New York.
Mary Shepard Sitt. Rudolph, Ohio.
Nov. 8, 1917.