Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,093, for Eliphalet Hurlbert, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hurlbert, Eliphalet
No. 18,093
or Hurlburt
or Hilburt
CONTENTS
Mehitabel

81 Nashua
21. G 2 3
Massachusetts
Eliphalet Nurbert
of Berkshire Co. in the State of Mass
who was a Private in the Cont. commanded by Captain Pearson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Sage in the Mass. line for Full term
State of Mass
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of Dec. 1833 and due to H. W. Bishop Survey
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 33 $200 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th 34 10
$210
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. O. Steele Clerk, Book E Vol. L Page 35

let to Pen. a g. 30 may
2452
Rep d
1839
Connecticut Massachusetts
Rev to Pension Agent 12 June 1839. To Connecticut from 4 th March 1836 - 20 June 1839. Notification sent to Messrs Johnson Goodman, Hartford Conn
Mehitable Dunbar
widow of Cooper Eliphalet Dunbar, dec d who was a pensioner under the Act of June, 1832 and who died on the 17 April, 1834 — of Berkshire Co in the State of Mass: — who was a private in the Comfy: commanded by Captain Person of the Regt commanded by Col: Sage in the Cont: — line for 2 years service
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of April 1839 and sent to Samuel Jones, Stockbridge, Mass:
arrears to the 4th of March 1839 $240.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 40.00 $280.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded B. Vol. 1 Page 95 M c Stewart Clerk,

State of Connecticut Hartford County, ss
On this the twentieth day of April A.D. 1839 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Hartford personally appeared Nehitable Newbut late of the town of Lendisfield in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who on her oath declares that she is the widow of Eliphalet Newbut deceased, that the said Eliphalet Newbut was a private in the Revolutionary war and died on the 17 th day of April A.D. 1834, that the said
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 William Johnson Esq 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 authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certifi- cates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Johnson
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 20 th day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and 39
And I certify that the signature of said Johnson hereunto annexed is genuine.
Royal R. Hinman
Secretary.

State of Connecticut Newford County, ss
On this the twentieth day of April A 1839 before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the said County of Newford personally appeared Nehitah Newbut late of the town of Sandisfield in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who on her oath declares that she is the widow of Eliphalet Newbut deceased, that the said Eliphalet Newbut was a private in the Revolutionary war and died on the 17 th day of April A 1834, that the said Eliphalet Newbut is the same person who belonged to the company commanded by Captain David Parsons in the regiment commanded by Col. Root. in the service of the United States. That her name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Massa- chusetts from whence she has lately removed that she now resides in the State of Connecticut where she intends to remain and wishes her pension to be there payable in future. The follow- ing are her reasons for removing from the State of Massachusetts to the State of Connecticut; she has five children four of which have emigrated to the West and the other one lives in Newford Connecticut, and she has removed to Newford Connecticut for the purpose of living with her son who there resides
Nehitah Newbut
Sworn and subscribed to before me on the day and year aforesaid
Nathan Johnson Just. of Peace

I Roswell Nuttall of the town and county of Newfjord and State of Connecticut of lawful age being duly cautioned before and say that I am well acquainted with Mehitable Nuttall late of the town of Southwick and State of Massachusetts now of Newfjord Connecticut, that I know that she is the widow of Elphalet Nuttall deceased, and that she is the same person who obtained a pension for the services of the said Elphalet Nuttall in the Revolutionary War that her pension certificate was dated the 22 nd day of April One Thousand eight hundred & thirty nine, and that the person who has subscribed the application herunto annexed for a transfer of the payment of her pension from Massachusetts to Connecticut and made oath to the same is the same Mehitable Nuttall described in the affidavit, and that no part of the pension to which she is entitled by the act of Congress has been paid to her, and that she has not appointed any agent to receive the same and further the deponent saith not
Roswell Nuttall
State of Connecticut
Newfjord County ss. Be it remembered that on this the Twentieth day of May A D 1839 Personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace within and for the county of Newfjord Roswell Nuttall signer of the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth to the same. And I also certify that the said Roswell Nuttall is a person of veracity and that his statements are entitled to credit
Nathan Johnson Just. of Peace

Elephalor Newburt Sandsfield MS Application for Pension Augt. 15 1832
17438

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Berkshire, ss.
ON this fifteenth day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable WILLIAM P. WALKER, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for said County of Berkshire, now sitting,
Eliphalet Harkness a resident of the town of Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy nine 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. That in May Seventeen hundred and Sixtyfive he enlisted at Enfield in the State of Connecticut where he then resided in the Company Commanded by Captain Hersebie Parsons and in Colonel Belting's Regiment of Connecticut Troops for eight months and marched in said company to Roxbury in Massachusetts and continued in said company at said Roxbury until about the first of August Seventeen hundred Sixtyfive and then marched to Kingstown in Massachusetts and continued in said service until the first part of December then moved to said Roxbury and was discharged with said company at said Roxbury the first part of December and in May or June Seventeen hundred Sixtysix he again enlisted in the Company of Captain Parsons at said Enfield where he resided for eight months and in the Regiment of Colonel Jabez Linsmont Colonel Rufus and Major Blod and marched in said company to New Haven Connecticut and from thence went aboard of a vessel and sailed to New York and then joined said Regiment and continued in the service at and near New York on the Hudson River until the Twenty fifth day of December Seventeen hundred Sixtysix when he was discharged at Crown Point so called and afterwards in March Seventeen hundred Sixtyseven he was drafted at said Enfield where he then resided in the Company of Captain Hersebie Parsons & Little of Connecticut Troops for the term of three months and marched in said company to Bristol Rhode Island where said Parsons had the Command and continued at said Bristol in said company until the expiration of said term of three months when he was discharged with said company.

And afterwards in June Seventeen hundred Seventy Seven he was again drafted at said Enfield where he then resided in the Company of Militia of Connecticut Troops in the Command of Captain Richard Abbey for three months and marched in said Company to Pitskill and then joined the main Army in the Regiment of Colonel Willis then marched in said Company and Regiment to East Chester in the State of New York and then returned to Pitskill and was discharged at said Pitskill with said Company and in September Seventeen hundred Seventy Seven he was again drafted at said Enfield where he then resided in the Company of Militia of Captain Joseph Booth for three months and the name of the Colonel he does not recollect General M'Kinney commanded Commanded the Brigade and then marched in said Company and Brigade to Pitskill aforesaid and then joined the Army and then marched to Redhook in the State of New York and then returned to Pitskill where said Company was discharged. And afterwards in August Seventeen hundred Seventy Seven he was again drafted at said Enfield where he then resided in the Company of Militia of Captain Jonathan Bush and marched in said Company to New London and then joined the Regiment of Colonel Pease and continued in said Service at said New London until said Company was discharged in the month of October or November Seventeen hundred Seventy Seven. He has no documentary Evidence of his Service and has no recollection of receiving a written discharge Col. Terry Commanded the Regiment at East Chester Pitskill
Interrogatories propounded to the applicant by the
1 st
When and in what year was you born? Answer - I was born in Enfield Connecticut in the year 1743-
3 rd
Have you any record of your age and if so where is it? Answer - I have none that I know of. 2 nd Where were you living when called into Service when have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live? Answer - I lived in Enfield when I entered Service and lived there for a number of years after the Revolutionary War and then removed to New Bedford where I now reside and have resided since -
4 th When were you called into Service, were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute? and if a substitute for whom? Answer - I believe I drafted as I stated in my application -
5 th State the names of some of the regular officers who were in the troops when you served and the Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your Service? Answer - I recollect Generals Washington, Ward, Putnam while at Roxbury, and General M'Kinney was the General who Commanded the Brigade at New York. General Ward Commanded the Militia at Pitskill and East Chester and I do not recollect any other officers except the General officers of the Continental Army who were at New York and on the Hudson River at all times when I served there -
6 th Did you receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it? Answer - I did not except with the rest of the Company we were all discharged together -
7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and truth belief of your Service as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer - Rev Levi White and Erastus Beach Esq

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
Eliphalet Hurlbut -
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walcutt J. P. Probate
We Levi White a Clergyman, residing in the Town of Sandisfield aforesaid and Erastus Beech residing in same Sandisfield - hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Eliphalet Hurlbut who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine 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. and we further certify that the said Eliphalet Hurlbut is a person of truth and veracity.
Levi White Erastus Beech
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W. P. Walcutt J. P. Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories, prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Levi White who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Sandisfield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that Erastus Beech who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Sandisfield in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
W. P. Walcutt Judge of Probate
I, HENRY W. BISHOP, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Eliphalet Hurlbut for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of said Court of Probate, this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate

2286
Mehitable Hurlbut wid of Eliphalt Mass Ad July 7 1838 Miana 1786 died 1834 Allow $80 per ann
Saml Jones Stockbridge Mass

State of Massachusetts. County of Berkshire ss.
On this second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Court of Probate held at Lenox within and for the County of Berkshire, in said State, Mehitable Hubbard, a resident of Sandisfield in said County of Berkshire, aged seventy three 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 7 th 1838. entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." — That she is the widow of Eliphalet Hubbard who was a soldier in the army of the revolution. According to her best knowledge a belief he went with the Connecticut Militia in the first year of the war to Roxbury in Massachusetts, was in the army thirty three months at different periods. — She thinks he always served with the Connecticut troops and she thinks with the Militia. — She has heard him say that he enlisted at Enfield in Connecticut and that he served for a time under Capt. David Parsons of said Enfield. His native place was Enfield in Connecticut and he lived there at the commencement of the war and that was his home during the war. — She can not state further under what officers he served.
Her said husband died at Sandisfield aforesaid on the 17 th day of April 1834. About two years before his death, and she believes in the year 1832. he obtained the allowance of a pension, he then living at said

Sandisfield, and she refers to the evidence transmitted to the Pension Office, at that time for evidence of his services in the Revolutionary war.
She further declares that she was married to the said Eliphalet Hurlburt, by the Rev. Ebenezer Storr, then the settled Congregational minister of Sandisfield, on the thirtieth day of May 1786; that her said husband, the said Eliphalet Hurlburt died, on the 17th day of April 1834 as aforesaid; 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 ninety four viz: at the time above stated. And she further declares that she has no documentary evidence to prove her said husband's service in said army.
Nehemiah Hurlburt
Subscribed & sworn to
Before William P. Walker Judge of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire County ss.
I Henry M. Bishop - Register of the Court of Probate in & for said county of Berkshire do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Nehemiah Hurlburt for a pension that the Hon. William P. Walker is the Judge of said Court and that the annexed is his genuine signature - In testimony whereof

I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. Henry W Bishop Regista Probate.

17438 Elephant Warbler of Massachusetts
Pan at Lyons
148608
June 6 1833
P-415
H. W. Bishop LMG Bucks Co Pa Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Eliphalet Hurlbert of Berkshire County in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 79 years  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. Gen.     In 1775 — 8 private Col. Persons Col. Patten   76 — 8 from May to Dec " " " Sage   77 — 3 " " Tabor " Witham   " — 3 " " Booth " Deane   " — 3 " " Bush " Deane   79 — 3 "  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Enfield Comm  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Three living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not properly connected 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. M. L. [Signature] Examining Clerk.
* Enlisted in May and was discharged in November December

I, Anne  Nancy Balch of Sandfield in the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, wife of Dea. Ebenezer Balch of said Sandfield, depose and say, that I am the daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer Storrs now deceased, who was for many years the settled Minister of the Congregational Society in said town of Sandfield, and kept a book containing among other things, a record of marriages solemnized before him as the minister of said Society. The said Ebenezer Storrs died about the year 1810, and the said book has ever since his death, remained and still remains in my care and possession. And I further depose and say that there is in said book, under the title of "record of marriages &c." the following record to wit. "One Thousand seven hundred and eighty six, May the tenth. Elizabeth Hubbard & Euphemia and Mahitabel Deming & Sam. were marry d ." with the exception of the date which is phrased on the record in few legible figures thus. "1786 May 30." - The above is a true extract from the records of the said Ebenezer Storrs, Minister as aforesaid with the above exception, as certified by me.
Anne Balch
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire ss. Sept. 24, 1838.
The foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn to by the said Anne Balch this day, the word "Nancy" being first erased and the word "Anna" interlined.
Before me Sam l Jones, Justice of the Peace. And I further certify that the said Anne Balch is a person of credibility and is entitled to full credit as a witness.
Sam l Jones, Justice of the Peace.
N. B. For evidence that the person before whom the above affidavit was taken is a Justice of the Peace, see the Clerk's certificate upon the affidavit of Ozias Deming, transmitted herewith.

From the papers in the pension claim W. 18093, it appears that Eliphalet Hurlbert, Hurlburt or Hulburt was born in 1743 at Enfield, Connecticut, and
While a resident of said Enfield, he enlisted
From in May 1775, eight months in Captain Hezekiah Parsons' Company, Colonel Pitkins' Regiment; from in the spring of 1776, eight months in Captain Hezekiah Parsons' Company, Colonel Sage's Regiment; from in March 1777, three months in Captain Hezekiah Parsons' Company; from in June 1777, three months in Captain Richard Abbey's Company, Colonel Wylllys' Regiment; from in September 1777, three months in Captain Joseph Booth's Company; and from in August 1779, three months in Captain Jonathan Bush's Company, Colonel Pease's Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832, while a resident of Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He died April 17, 1834 at said Sandisfield.
Soldier married May 30, 1786, Mehitabel Deming, she was then of Sandisfield, Massachusetts, and he of Enfield, Connecticut.
She was allowed pension on her application executed October 2, 1838, while a resident of said Sandisfield, aged seventy- 8 two years.
In 1839, she stated that she had five children,
four of whom had "emigrated to the West", and that she at that time was living with her son in Hartford, Connecticut. The names of children not mentioned.
She 1 st Q-18093 letter also paid to Cong. Richard P. Freeman Aug 1832 in Joseph Snuggs S. 30445-7 cash in Reifer Family S. 13682 Aug 3

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18293
Mehitable Hurlbert widow of Eliphalet Hurlbert Pri after War
Act: July 14 th 88
Index:—Vol. 14 , Page 358
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1928 Jan 18-11-21 to Cong Richard P. Freeman See letter in people's puggs p. 304 & 5. Cong.

Elphinstone Huntbank Maf. June 7. To whom paid?
Due 17 th April 1834 15 d to that period
HHS
114

C. Hubbard 17438
W. M. Bishop Snow map

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Eliphalet Hubbard which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? the court has  no
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? no
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

May 24 Mr Evans
Rev. J. L. Schoenfeld Comm ee of Penitents Washington D. C.

Kensford May 20 th 1839
Dear Sir
We now enclose you the application of Mrs McKittrick Woodbut for a transfer of pension
Very Res ly
Yours &
Johnson Goodwin

Merchants Bank, Boston, 15 th June 1839.
Sir,
Yours of the 12 th inst. is received and in reply I have to state that no payment had been made to Michèle Lambert a pensioner now on the Roll of this Agency under the act of 7 th July 1838.
I am very respectfully, Your obed. Servt.
T. Hann
Pension Agent
by H. Edwards
Carl
J. A. Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions Washington D.C.

State of Connecticut County of Hartford } ss.
I, David Griswold, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Hartford, do hereby certify, That Lemain T. Pease Esq., before whom the following affidavits of Joseph Parsons, Rufus Bush, & Moses Pease were respectively taken, was on the 6 th Day of August A.D. 1832, & ever since has been, & is now, a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Hartford, duly commissioned & qualified ac- cording to Law, with full power to take affidavits, ad- minister oaths &c, & that full faith & credit are due to his official acts. And I further certify, that the hand- writing of said Lemain T. Pease, is well known to me, & that I verily believe the respective signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of said County Court this 26 th Day of June A.D. 1833.
David Griswold, Clerk 

State of Connecticut County of Hartford } ss.
I, Jared Griswold, Clerk of the County Court for said County, of Hartford, do hereby certify that Lorain T. Pease of Enfield in said County, was on the sixth day of August A.D. 1832, a Justice of the Peace for said County of Hartford, duly com- missioned & qualified, according to law, & that full faith & credit are due to his official acts.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County Court this nineteenth day of October in the Year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred & thirty two.
A.D. 1832 } Oct. 19 th }
Jared Griswold Clerk

Moses Pease of Enfield in Hartford County in the State of Connecticut of Lawful age Depose & say That I am well acquainted with Ephraim Hurlbut formerly of Enfield now residing in Windfield in the State of Massachusetts that I was well acquainted with Hurlbut before & during the Revolutionary War, that during the Hurlbut performed two Tours of Service of Three months Each in the same Company with me, the first was at Bristol in the State of Rhode Island & commenced in the Spring of the year 1777 in the month of March according to my best recollection, our Company was commanded by Capt. Merick Parsons of Enfield, the other Tour was at New London & according to my best recollection commenced in the month of August 1779 & continued for three months our Company was commanded by Capt. Jonathan Bush of Enfield and further the deponent saith not
Enfield Aug t 1832
Moses Pease

State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } S. Enfield Aug t 6 th 1832
Then personally appeared before me Lorain T. Pease Esq. a Justice of Peace for s d County. Moses Pease who in my presence subscribed his name to the foregoing Deposition and made oath to the truth of the same. the foregoing Deposition taken at the request of Mr. Eliphalet Hurlburt to be used on the hearing of his application for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 before any Tribunal proper to hear & try the same
Lorain T. Pease Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } S. Enfield 24 th June 1833
I certify that Moses Pease who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing Deposition is well known to me that he is a Credible person & that his statements are Entitled to full credit
Lorain T. Pease Justice of Peace

Rufus Bush of the Town of Enfield in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut of lawful age do hereby say that I am well acquainted with Elphalt Warrent formerly of Enfield now of Sunderland in the State of Massachusetts. that I was well acquainted with Warrent before & during the Revolutionary War that about the first of May in the year 1775 the Warrent Enlisted under Capt. Jeremiah Parsons then living in Enfield for the term of seven months to serve against the Enemy then in possession of Boston that he soon after marched to Roxbury & served there several weeks. when he went with the Company to which he belonged to Hingham & served there the remainder of the term of his Enlistment that I Enlisted at the same time with Warrent marched with him & served with him in the same Company the whole term at Roxbury & at Hingham & further this upon my faith not Rufus Bush

State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } Enfield Aug 6 th 1832
Then personally appeared before me Lorain D Pease Esq a Justice of the Peace for said County Rufus Bush, who in my presence subscribed his name to the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the same, the foregoing deposition taken at the request of Mr. Eliphalet Murtlock to be used on the hearing of his application for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 before any Tribunal proper to hear & try the same
Lorain D Pease Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } Enfield 24 June 1833
I certify that Rufus Bush who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing deposition is well known to me that he is a credible Person & that his statements are entitled to full credit
Lorain D Pease Justice of Peace

Joseph Parsons of Enfield in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut of Lawful age Deposeth that I am well acquainted with Eliphalet Hurlburt formerly of P' Enfield now of Sandisfield in the State of Massachusetts that I was well acquainted with P' Hurlburt before & during the Revolutionary War that about the first of May in the year 1776 the P' Hurlburt Enlisted, for the term of Eight months as I then understood in a Company of Connecticut State troops under Capt Hezekiah Parsons that he soon after proceeded to the City of New York with P' company & served with the Army until the Expiration of P' term of Eight months he was discharged according to my best recollection Dec 25 th 1776 at Peekskill. That in the year 1777 in July or Aug the P' Hurlburt volunteered & served in a volunteer Company under the Command of Capt Joseph Booth. That he first marched to Fishkill on the North River & served along the P' River a part of the time pursuing the Enemies Ships for the term of three months I well recollect that he was discharged soon after Burgoyne had surrendered. I resided in the same neighborhood with the P' Hurlburt at the time he engaged in each of the above mentioned terms of service & engaged & served with him in the same Company during the whole of each term & further the Deponent saith not
Joseph Parsons

State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } Enfield Aug t 6 th 1832
Then personally appeared before me Lorrain J Pease Esq a Justice of Peace for S County Mayor Joseph Parsons who in my presence subscribed his name to the foregoing Deposition & made oath to the truth of the same. The foregoing Deposition taken at the request of Mr Eliphalet Hartbut to be used on the hearing of his application for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 4 th 1832 before any Tribunal proper to hear & try the same
Lorrain J Pease Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut } Enfield 24 June 1832 Hartford County } P
I hereby certify that Joseph Parsons who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing Deposition is well known to me that he is a Credible Person & his statements are entitled to full Credit
Lorrain J Pease Justice of Peace

I, Orias Deming, of Sandisfield in the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy five years, do testify and say, that Mehitable Hurlbut of said Sandisfield is my Sister - That she was married to Eliphaleth Hurlbut at the house of my father in said Sandisfield, by the Rev. Mr. Storr then the settled Minister of said town. I was present and saw them married. I can not, from recollection, state the precise date of the marriage, but am informed it was on the 30 th day of May 1786. and have no doubt that it was on that day.
The said Eliphaleth Hurlbut died at Sandisfield aforesaid, on the 17 th day of April 1834. I saw him very soon after his death and was present at his funeral. His wife, the said Mehitable Hurlbut, has never since been married and still remains his widow.
O. D. Deming
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire ss. October 2 o 1836.
Then the above named Orias Deming personally appeared and made oaths to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, before me. And I certify that he maintains a good reputation as a man of truth.
J. W. Jones, Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire ss:
I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berkshire do certify that Samuel Jones Esq. before whom the foregoing Affidavit of Ora Deming was taken was at the date thereof a justice of the Peace within & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that the signature on the other side purporting to be his is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this fourth day of October 1838
Cha s Sedgwick Clerk