Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29253, for Israel Hutchinson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hutchinson, Israel
S. 29253
CONTENTS

✓ 21006 Massachusetts
Dead Hutchinson
of the Co in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Putnam of the Regt commanded by William Duto in the Mass line for 20 months
Dead. Letter to C. Munt and Phag dated 30 June 1838.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1836 to 4 Jan'y 1837 the day of said Pensioner's death Agent notified 10. July 1838.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 100 Dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of Aug 1835 and sent to E. Davis -age Salmon Mass Arrears to the 4th of March 1835 $ 135.24 Semest. allowance ending 4 Sept.  99.33 $234.57
Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. } Recorded by Albion Clerk. Book E Vol. 2A Page 31

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 5. 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The children of Israel Hutchinson deceased a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of sixty six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of September 1836 to the 4 th January 1837, the day of said pensioner's death. Respectfully, yours,
Alison R. Parris Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions.
Present.

13/18. Israel Hutchinson Map
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E Savage Salem Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Israel Hutchinson  60 of 2384  in the State of  Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 72  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     April In 17 th  enlisted 1 8 Thursd. private Gen. Putnam Col. Mansfield  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Danvers Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Two living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers are not attached agreeably to the regulations — the credibility of the attestation is not certified — nor the official character of the witnesses certified 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George S. Dyer
Examining Clerk.

13.7.18
Israel Hutchinson

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS: COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss.
On this second day of October A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, Israel Hutchinson , a resident of Danvers , in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
In the month of April 1775 then residing with his Father Israel Hutchinson in Danvers aforesaid, he enlisted as a private Soldier in the revolutionary army then assembling at Cambridge near Boston in the Regiment commanded by William Mansfield, of Massachusetts line in the infantry Company of Colonel Putnam. — in June following Col Mansfield left the Reg t and Service. — when Israel Hutchinson (Father of the Appearer) who had been the Lieut Col: was appointed to the command of the Regiment. That the Appearer served thro' that year at Cambridge & until he went with the same Regiment in the Spring of the year 1776. to New York — in which State & the Jerseys he served in the same Com y 73 Reg t the whole of the second Campaign — That in Autumn of that year. while on the retreat through the Jerseys. The Regimental Muster Roll and other papers were lost —
During the Winter of 1776-7 — This Appearer obtained his discharge and quitted the Service — So that the term of his Service was two entire Campaigns and from April 1775 to Jan y 1777 —
And this Appearer doth now present himself as an Applicant for a Pension

Under the provisions of the Pension Act of June 1832 —
and he hereby relinquishes every claim to any pension or annuity except the present — and declares his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State —
To John Henry of Danvers aforesaid, and Thomas Brewer also said Danvers he refers to an affidavit to confirm the foregoing statement —
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Israel Hutchinson
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
J. R. White JUDGE OF PROBATE.
We, X a clergyman, residing in aforesaid, and Esquire, a magistrate, residing in aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
+ see the hon. M c Shane's certificate last named
Subscribed and sworn to before

And the said Court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that _____ who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in _____ and that the said _____ who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at _____ and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
D. H. White Judge of Probate
I, NATHANIEL LORD Junior, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Israel Fletcher for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this second day of October , A. D. 1832.
Nath. Lord Jr.

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File No. 29,253
Israel Hutchinson
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 197
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
We John Kenny & Thos Cheever both of Danvers in the County of Essex do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Israel Sturtevant of said Danvers an applicant for a pension That we believe and are fully satisfied beyond all doubt of his revolutionary services - and that he was duly enlisted as a private soldier in (his father's) Col. Israel Sturtevant's Regt. of the Mass. Line - and served from April 1775 to the last of Decemr 1776, making one year 30 months service - as stated in his Declaration - That we believe his age to be seventy two or three years and in all respects fully within the provision of the late pension law
We also certify that we know Miss. Hall Milton of Salem and Francis Peabody of Salem - who have given their several attestation to the services of Israel Sturtevant as a soldier in the revolutionary war - and that they are credible witnesses to the best of our knowledge & belief -
We the Deponents also state that Israel Sturtevant has of late spent part his time in Roxbury in the County of Boston - but Danvers is considered his home The Regt in which he served (it appears) was under the command of William Mansfield till sometime in 1775
See over
John Kenny Thomas Cheever

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex. Town of Danvers -
June 7 th 1833 Then personally appeared the within named Deponents, John Kenney & Thomas Cheever who severally made oath to the within declaration by them subscribed - and I do further certify that the said Kenney and Cheever are old inhabitants of said Danvers and highly respectable citizens and entitled to full credit in courts of law.
John Kenney - Just Power
I have personal knowledge of Israel Hutchinson the applicant for a Pension - have examined his declaration in his presence, and am satisfied of its truth - and consider him entitled to the Pension - provided for a Revolutionary private soldier of twenty months service -
The reason for the omission of the Clergyman's certificate is, that the Pastor of the religious Society of which Mr. Hutchinson is a member has been settled within a year past. Messrs. Kenney and Cheever are gentlemen of undoubted integrity.
Rufus Choate
Miss. in Law
Salem June 10 th 1833

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Except October 3 1832 I do hereby certify that the within named Deponent and Francis Peabody whose deposition accompanies the within are credible men and their statements entitled to credit
Gabriel Savage Just Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Francis Peabody of Salem in County of Essex Commonwealth do hereby certify and declare. That in the years 1775 and 1776 I was in the revolutionary War and served as a private in the Regiment commanded by Israel Hutchinson of the Commonwealth since in the company commanded by Ezra Newhall and I well know that Israel Hutchinson son of the said Col. Hutchinson served also as a private in the same Regiment in the company commanded by Enoch Putnam - that the said Israel was honorably discharged sometime near the beginning of the year 1777 - I have known the Hutchinson from the time we were together in the Army to the present time. At the time the Department entitled I resided in Middleton in the County of Essex where I was born - I have often heard and I believe it to be true that the muster roll and other regimental papers of our King were lost in the retreat from the Jerseys in 1776 -
Francis Peabody
Joseph September 28 1832 Then Francis Peabody made oath to the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me Jacob Towne jun. Jus of the peace
N.B. the dep't not being in the presence of his majistrate he could not take it of his hand

I Hale Hiltson of Beverly in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentleman - Do. Oath do testify and declare - That Israel Hutchinson late of Danvers in said County of Essex now residing in Roxbury in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth aforesaid - (an Applicant for a Pension as a Soldier in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War under the Statute of Congress of June last) - served as a private in the Regiment commanded by Israel Hutchinson of the Massachusetts Line the whole of Campaign of 1775 - and 1776 and at the close of the last year had a regular discharge (as I have reason to believe - with the said Col. Hutchinson was father to Israel Hutchinson the present Applicant - The Regiment aforesaid was the twentyseventh - the Capt of the Company in which Col. Hutchinson served was Brook Tutton - the Hale Hiltson (Deponent a Musician in Col. Hutchinson's Reg t during the same Campaign -
Essex September 28 th 1832 Then the above named Hale Hiltson personally appeared (and made Oath to the foregoing deposition by him subscribed - before me -  Orville Savage Esq. of Middlesex
Q13 Certificate of Dep y Clerk of Court for Cordable - endorsed by the Magis t

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Given under my hand this 3 rd day of October 1832 I do hereby certify that the within named Deponent and Francis Peabody whose deposition accompanies the within - are credible men and their statements entitled to credit -
_____ Gabriel Savage Justiciar

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss.
I John Prince jr. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do certify that Eben Hunt of Danvers, Jacob Towne jr. of Topsfield, & Ezekiel Savage of Salem are Justices of the Peace in said County & that Rufus Choate is a Member of Congress & that I believe their signatures within are genuine.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court at Salem June 10. 1833.
John Prince Jr. Clerk

June 17.
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J. Edwards Lee Commissioner of Pensions Washington (D.C.)

Sir
Salem (Mass) June 11. 1833
I herewith enclose 3 forward the Papers relating to the application of J. Hutchinson for a Pension - you will please to observe that the present Officer has duly testified to the Official character & irregularities of the Magistrate - that there is a certificate from two gentlemen among the most respectable citizens of Danvers as to the truth & veracity of J. Hutchinson's declaration - and also of Mr. Choate (our deposed Clerk) in Langrop's - certificate of the reason why the Clergyman's testimony was not added etc
I sincerely hope nothing may occur any further objection in procuring the Pension for this very needy & meritorious revolutionary
As soon as it has passed - it is the desire of the applicant - that the Certificate may be sent to me very respectfully yr. hum. Servt
Conrad Savage
J. St. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions