Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,867, for Thadeus Hurlburt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hurlburt, Thaddeus
S. 32,867
or Thaddeus
Hulbert, or Thaddeus
CONTENTS

12.83/ R Massachusetts Inadeus Hurlburt
of Dalton in the state of Mass ts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson of the Mass ts line, for the term of One year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21. of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of July 1819 and that to John & the Childs Org Peterfield Mass ts
Arrears to 4th of March 1819  75.87
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept 1819  48
9 15 /31 $123.87
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Thaddeus Hulbert
1887 July 19
Sept 1815

District of Massachusetts, ss :
ON this 30 th day of June 1820 ; Personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Lenox, within and for the County of Berkshire, in the Western Circuit, on the 4th Monday of June 1820, the same Court, being a Court of records for said Circuit ; proceeding according to the course of the common Law, with a jurisdiction, unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment,  Thaddeus Hulbert aged Seventy years, resident in Dalton — in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows ; that he enlisted in the company commanded by Captain David Noble — in the regiment commanded by Colonel Patterson — in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment. That his original declaration is dated 21 st day of May 1818 — and that his pension certificate is numbered 12,837 —
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent, thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons, engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule, hereto annexed, and by me subscribed—schedule of property, necessary clothing and bedding excepted—to wit :
Schedule of the estate of Mr. Thaddeus Hulbert of Dalton & County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of May 1 st 1820— no real Estate —
   1 old fall leaf table — $1.00 1 half pint tumbler — .12   1 small iron kettle — 1.50 1 wine Glass — .6   1 Broken Iron Pot — .67 4 large spoons — .34   1 small flat bottom kettle .75 7 Pewter tea spoons — .21   1 Sift very small — .50 1 salt cellar — .12   1 Tea kettle — 1. 1 tin pail — 50   1 Midwar — .34 1 old mortar & sundry other old   1 small p o of slide & tongs .50 articles hardly worth any thing .50   1 p o of flat irons — .75 1 small Looking Glass — .75   1 old candlestick — .8 1 old chest of drawers — 1.00   1 foot stove — .75 1 small trunk — 1.00   1 hr. of steel yard — 1.00 4 towels — 1.00   2 table cloths — 3.00  

1 Small flat bottom kettle 1.75 1 Sifter very small - .50 1 Tea kettle - 1. 1 Spidder - .34 1 small pr. of slice stones .50 1 pr. of flat irons - .75 1 old candlestick - .8 1 foot stove - .75 1 pr. of old yard - 1.00 2 old pails - .50 1 old wash tub - .34 2 old meat tubs - .67 3 pounds of Pork - .37 10 pounds of rip flour - .30 2 gars of corn meal - .8 2 pounds of Butter - .17 15 old Earthen plates - .60 9 old tea cups & saucers - .40 1 Black tea pot - .25 2 old sugar bowls - .20 4 old Earthen bowls - .40 1 old creamer - .6 2 old small plates - .13 4 Glass bottles - .75 2 Jugs - .50 2 old pewter plates & one pewter plate .60 1 turnell - .17 1 large tin Dipper - .16 1 pint tin cup - .12 1 tea canister - .25
1 Water can spoons - .20 1 Salt cellar - .12 1 tin pail - .50 1 old mortar & sundry other old articles hardly worth any thing .50 1 small Looking Glass - .75 1 old chest of drawers - 1.00 1 small trunk - 1.00 4 towels - 1.00 2 table cloths - 3.00 1 reel - .75 1 foot wheel - 2.00 1 Great wheel - .75 4 old chairs - 1.34 1 candle stand - .67 1 small table - .75 1 Great Chair - 1.00 1 candle mould - .20 1 old meat chest - .20 2 old baskets - .25 2 Sheep - 1.30
Total $ 33.87
Thaddeus - His Hubert mark -
Attt. Henry Wash Family Chearland

That I am by occupation a weaver that I am unable to work having been thing now troubled with a Rheumatic complaint that the number  none of my family residing with me is that their names and ages are as follow: I have a wife, but she resides with her father I is aged about fifty seven her name Elizabeth H. Hunt I is not able to do but very little work - that I have been aided by the Charity for some considerable time supported by the town of Dutton.
Subscribed in presence of H. Mark Junr. -
Thaddeus H. Hunt
Sworn to, and declared on the 30 th - day of June mark 1820, before the said Court -
Parker L. Hall (V.P. protem.)
I Parker L. Hall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Berkshire do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule there- to annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty three dollars and eighty seven cents. -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this ninth day of August - 1820.
Parker L. Hall
} CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.

Thad. Hurlbut of Dalton Prin:
Col. Patterson's Massachusetts Rep.
17/6+ for 1 year+
21 st May 1810-
The deposition of the said Thad. Hurlbut, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that the within copy is a true copy of the original thereof and that the same was taken before him on this day personally known to him to be the person described in and who executed the same.
ad. I send to Timothy Child as Esqr Pittsfield Mass s

State of New-York, OTSEGO COUNTY
{ ss.
Thaddeus Hurlbut aged 67 years being duly sworn, saith, that he is a resident of the
town of New Lisbon in the County aforesaid, and has served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution against the common enemy, for the term of Nine Months and longer, at a certain period of the war herein after mentioned, on the Continental Establishment, and is yet a resident citizen of the United States; and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support. And this deponent further saith, that he never has received any pension from the United States, and doth hereby relinquish his claim to every pension that may have been heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States, excepting and reserving to himself the right of claiming, and he doth hereby claim a pension under an act entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed 18th March, 1818. And this deponent doth further declare under oath, that the time he entered the army of the United States in the war of the revolution aforesaid, on the Continental Establishment, the officers under whom he served, and the line to which he belonged, together with the time and manner of leaving the service, are all correctly set forth, according to the best of his knowledge and recollection, in the following manner; that is to say, he the said
Thaddeus Hurlbut did at New Lisbon in the State of New York in the month of January 1776 enlist under one Captain David Hobbs in Colonel Paterson's regiment belonging to the Massachusetts line - which enlistment was for one year - served said year and was discharged near West Point by Col. Paterson aforesaid - and this deponent further saith that he has it not in his power to give other evidence of his service -
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 21 st day of May 1818
Thaddeus Hurlbut his mark
John Russell Judge of Court Common Pleas.

State of New-York, } ss. I John Rufus Cone of the OTSEGO COUNTY, } Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, do certify that I am satisfied the said Shaddus Hulbert served in the revolutionary war as aforesaid, against the common enemy, for a longer term than nine months, as stated in the affidavit of the said Shaddus — hereunto annexed—And I do further certify that full credit is due to the deposition of the above named Shaddus — and also that the evidence on which I have founded my judgment is contained in the affidavit of the said Shaddus —
Given under my hand Cooperstown this 20 th day of August 1818.
John Rufus

State of New York
Otsego County ss. I certify that I am satisfied that Maddus Hulbert by reason of his reduced circum- stances in life is in need of assistance from his Country for support. Given under my hand this 17 th day of May 1819. —
John Russell Judge of Com. pleas
State of New York
Otsego County ss. Clerk's Office. I certify that John Russell whose signature appears to the foregoing papers of Maddus Hulbert is one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Otsego duly qualified as such at the date of each signature and that the signatures are genuine Given under my hand and the seal of the Court of Com. pleas for the said County this 17 th day of May 1819. —
M c Morrell Clerk

32867 Very INVALID.
File No. 32,867
Shadens Knulhart P. Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 198
[Arrangement of 1870.]

New York. addl. evidence in the case of Haddad Herbert since he made his declaration he has removed to Massachusetts.
June 16. 1899

Coopers town June 19. 1819
Sir,
Thaddus Hurlbuts Declaration of services in the revolutionary war was returned to the Department of war about the beginning of this month with the judges certificate & seal of the Court as required.
The enclosed are Affidavits to substantiate his claim claim should such tests. may be necessary.
Hurlbut has lately become an inhabitant in the State of Massachusetts & wishes to be placed on the Massachusetts Agency should he be so fortunate as to be succeed in his application —
With sentiments of great respect
I am Sir your Obedt. Servt.
John Rufus
Honble J. C. Calhoun Secy of War

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Berkshire ss I Timothy Childs of Pittsfield in the County of Berkshire aforesaid Esquire do testify on oath & say That I am well acquainted with Thaddeus Hurlbert lately of Pittsfield in the County of Otsego & State of New York & was of Dalton in the said County of Berkshire and knew him as a Soldier in the regular Service of the United States in the revolution war; was with Great Britain — and the said Thaddeus Hurlbert is present & recognized by me — That I knew him as a Soldier in the year 1775 in the Company Commanded by Captain David Noble & the Regiment Commanded by Col. John Patterson in the eighth month Service I remember him in company as aforesaid at the above time at Cambridge in this State — That before the British troops in the year of 1776 evacuating Boston the above troops Hurlbert marched from Cambridge for New York — That afterwards on the expiration of the 8 th night month Service all that could procure of the same troops are enlisted for a year Service under the Continental Service and were marched from New York to Canada That I then knew the said Hurlbert belonged to the same company commanded by Capt. Noble & the same Col. Patterson aforesaid — That I there in- spected the said Hurlbert for the Small Pox — That I repeatedly saw him in the regular Service in the above war & have no doubt that he served more than nine months at one time as a Soldier in the Continental Service in the revolutionary war with Great Britain — I further Saith — Timothy Childs
Pittsfield Jan y 27 th 1819 Then personally appeared before me the above Hon ble Timothy Childs of the town of Pittsfield when he is a practicing physician & to me well known to be a gentleman of great respectability & made oath that the facts to him known submitted are true — That he is a man of truth & veracity before me Chauncy Hurlbert Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Berkshire ss
I Jeremiah Eggleston of Lenox in the County of Berkshire aforesaid Esquire do testify on oath & say That Thaddeus Hurlbut late of Litchfield in the State of New York and now resident at Dalton in the said County of Berkshire is now present & recognized by me That I know the said Hurlbut was a soldier in the United States army in the regular Service in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain That he belonged to and was with the Company commanded by David Noble as Captain & in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Paterson at Cambridge in the year 1775 which troops were intended for an eight months Service That the said Hurlbut in the fall of 1775 commanded a company in a regiment commanded by the above Col. John Paterson entitled for one years Service in the Continental Service of the United States in the revolutionary war That the said company was marched from New York for Canada That I then saw the above Thaddeus Hurlbut & now recognize him to be the same man and That I know he was then & there a member of the Company last aforesaid as a private soldier I remember particularly seeing him in the company last aforesaid in Service in 1775 at Montreal and have no doubt that the said Hurlbut served in the Continental Service aforesaid as a soldier more than nine months in the year 1775 I further Saith not
Jeremiah Eggleston
Berkshire ss. Pittsfield June 5. 1819. Then personally appeared the above named Jeremiah Eggleston with whom I am well acquainted & who is a man of truth & veracity & made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth before me.
Chauncy Hurlbut Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire: Joseph Woodbridge Clerk of the Judicial Courts, within & for the County of Berkshire do certify and attest that Chauncy Hulbert Eddy is a Justice of the Peace within and for the same County, duly Commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth and that the above is his Signature. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this seventh day of June A.D. 1819.
J. Woodbridge. Clerk